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…