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The DIRECT Project: Influence of Blending on the Cepheid Distance Scale. II. Cepheids in M33
B. J. Mochejska, L. M. Macri, D. D. Sasselov +1
We investigate the influence of blending on the Cepheid distance scale. Blending is the close association of a Cepheid with one or more intrinsically luminous stars. High-resolutio…
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DIRECT Distances to Nearby Galaxies Using Detached Eclipsing Binaries and Cepheids. VI. Variables in the Central Part of M33
L. M. Macri, K. Z. Stanek, D. D. Sasselov +2
The DIRECT project aims to determine direct distances to two important galaxies in the cosmological distance ladder - M31 and M33 - using detached eclipsing binaries (DEBs) and Cep…