The Zero Point of Extinction Toward Baade's Window From RR Lyrae Stars
arXiv:astro-ph/9706292 · doi:10.1086/305206
Abstract
We measure the zero point of the Stanek (1996) extinction map by comparing the observed (V-K) colors of 20 RR Lyrae stars (type ab) found in the MACHO survey with their intrinsic (V-K)_0 colors as a function of period as determined from nearby RR Lyrae stars. We find that the zero point of the Stanek map should be changed by ΔA_V = -0.11 +/- 0.05 mag, in excellent agreement with the recent measurement of Gould, Popowski & Terndrup (1997) using K giants.
arXiv commentSubmitted to ApJ, 18 pages including figures
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