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GIARPS simultaneous optical and infrared high-spectral-resolution observations of Cepheids I. Limb darkening from cross-correlated radial velocities
N. Nardetto, R. S. Rathour, M. C. Bailleul +17
The Baade-Wesselink method, while theoretically applicable for calibrating the distance scale via Cepheids, is not currently employed in the cosmic distance ladder. There are vario…
Multi-chromatic observations of classical Cepheids using the CHARA Array interferometer: Surface brightness-colour relation, projection factor, and limb-darkening
M. C. Bailleul, N. Nardetto, D. Mourard +28
The Baade-Wesselink (BW) method compares the linear and angular variations of Cepheids to derive their distance. This method is limited, however, by the projection factor, which re…
Reconstruction of Cepheid Radial Velocity Curves from the shape of the V-band Light Curves
V. Hocdé, P. Moskalik, N. Nardetto +17
This paper aims to develop the first method to reconstruct the shape of the RV curves of short-period fundamental-mode Cepheids, based exclusively on their pulsation period and the…
The effect of metallicity on the Leavitt Law using phase-dependent properties of classical Cepheids
Gautam Bhuyan, Shashi Kanbur, Sukanta Deb +5
The absolute calibration of period-luminosity (PL) relations of Cepheids in the Milky Way (MW) and its nearby galaxies has been a cornerstone in determining extragalactic distances…
The stellar evolution perspective on the metallicity dependence of classical Cepheid Leavitt laws
Saniya Khan, Richard I. Anderson, Sylvia Ekström +2
The impact of metallicity on the Cepheid Leavitt law (LL) and, in turn, the Hubble constant, has been the subject of much recent debate. Here, we present a comprehensive analysis o…
The Legacy of Henrietta Leavitt: A Re-analysis of the First Cepheid Period-Luminosity Relation
Louise Breuval, Caroline D. Huang, Adam G. Riess
Henrietta Swan Leavitt's discovery of the relationship between the period and luminosity (hereafter the Leavitt Law) of 25 variable stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud, published i…
The Baade-Wesselink projection factor of RR Lyrae stars -- Calibration from OHP/SOPHIE spectroscopy and Gaia DR3 parallaxes
Garance Bras, Pierre Kervella, Boris Trahin +10
The application of the parallax of pulsation (PoP) technique to determine distances of pulsating stars implies the use of a scaling parameter, the projection factor (p-factor), req…
X-rays in Cepheids: Identifying Low-Mass Companions of Intermediate-Mass Stars
Nancy Remage Evans, Scott Engle, Ignazio Pillitteri +12
X-ray observations have been made of a sample of 20 classical Cepheids, including two new observations (Polaris and {\it l} Car) reported here. The occurrence of X-ray flux around…
An absolute calibration of the near-infrared Period-Luminosity Relations of Type II Cepheids in the Milky Way and in the Large Magellanic Cloud
Piotr Wielgórski, Grzegorz Pietrzyński, Bogumił Pilecki +29
We present time-series photometry of 21 nearby Type II Cepheids in the near-infrared J, H and Ks passbands. We use this photometry, together with the Third Gaia Early Data Release…
Inspecting the Cepheid parallax of pulsation using Gaia EDR3 parallaxes. Projection factor and period-luminosity and period-radius relations
Boris Trahin, Louise Breuval, Pierre Kervella +5
As primary anchors of the distance scale, Cepheid stars play a crucial role in our understanding of the distance scale of the Universe because of their period-luminosity relation.…
Mid-infrared circumstellar emission of the long-period Cepheid l Carinae resolved with VLTI/MATISSE
V. Hocdé, N. Nardetto, A. Matter +149
The nature of circumstellar envelopes (CSE) around Cepheids is still a matter of debate. The physical origin of their infrared (IR) excess could be either a shell of ionized gas, o…
Pulsating chromosphere of classical Cepheids. Calcium infrared triplet and H profile variations
V. Hocdé, N. Nardetto, S. Borgniet +10
It has been shown recently that the infrared emission of Cepheids, which is constant over the pulsation cycle, might be due to a pulsating shell of ionized gas of about 15\% of the…
The Milky Way Cepheid Leavitt law based on Gaia DR2 parallaxes of companion stars and host open cluster populations
Louise Breuval, Pierre Kervella, Richard I. Anderson +12
Classical Cepheids provide the foundation for the empirical extragalactic distance ladder. Milky Way Cepheids are the only stars in this class accessible to trigonometric parallax…
The Leavitt law of Milky Way Cepheids from Gaia DR2 static companion parallaxes
Louise Breuval, Pierre Kervella, Frédéric Arenou +13
Classical Cepheids (CCs) are at the heart of the empirical extragalactic distance ladder. Milky Way CCs are the only stars of this class accessible to trigonometric parallax measur…
A thin shell of ionized gas explaining the IR excess of classical Cepheids
V. Hocdé, N. Nardetto, E. Lagadec +12
Despite observational evidences, InfraRed (IR) excess of classical Cepheids are seldom studied and poorly understood, but probably induces systematics on the Period-Luminosity (PL)…
Consistent radial velocities of classical Cepheids from the cross-correlation technique
Simon Borgniet, Pierre Kervella, Nicolas Nardetto +11
Accurate radial velocities () of Cepheids are mandatory within the context of distance measurements via the Baade-Wesselink technique. The most common de…
Testing systematics of Gaia DR2 parallaxes with empirical surface brightness -- color relations applied to eclipsing binaries
Dariusz Graczyk, Grzegorz Pietrzynski, Wolfgang Gieren +18
Using a sample of 81 galactic, detached eclipsing binary stars we investigated the global zero-point shift of their parallaxes with the Gaia Data Release 2 (DR2) parallaxes. The st…