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most citedAn updated metal-dependent theoretical scenario for Classical Cepheids

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astro-ph.SR2026

Theoretical RR Lyrae Instability Strip from MESA-RSP Pulsation models and updated BaSTI Evolutionary Tracks

M. Deka, M. Marconi, R. Molinaro +6

RR Lyraes (RRLs) are important tracers of old stellar populations and crucial distance indicators. To complement large variability surveys such as Gaia and Rubin-LSST, the topology…

astro-ph.SR2026

Large Magellanic Cloud Globular Clusters in the Near-infrared. I. RR Lyrae in Reticulum

Anupam Bhardwaj, Susmita Das, Prashant Nishad +10

Reticulum is an old, metal-poor, and sparsely populated globular cluster in the outer regions of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and hosts a rich population of RR Lyrae stars. Bei…

astro-ph.GA2026

AGILE: an end-to-end Rubin-LSST simulation of AGNs, galaxies, and stars I. Software description and first data release

A. Viitanen, A. Bongiorno, I. Saccheo +37

Contemporary large-scale surveys such as the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) and Euclid present an unprecedented discovery potential for studying A…

astro-ph.SR2025

Cepheid Metallicity in the Leavitt Law (C--MetaLL) survey: VIII. High-Resolution IGRINS Spectroscopy of 23 Classical Cepheids: Validating NIR Abundances

G. Catanzaro, A. Bhardwaj, V. Ripepi +8

Context. While most chemical abundance studies of Cepheids rely on optical spectroscopy, near-infrared (NIR) observations offer advantages in terms of reduced extinction and access…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Cepheid Metallicity in the Leavitt Law (C- MetaLL) survey: VIII: Spectroscopic detection of rare earth dysprosium, erbium, lutetium and thorium in Classical Cepheids

E. Trentin, G. Catanzaro, V. Ripepi +11

Classical Cepheids are among the most important distance calibrators thanks to the correlation between their period and luminosity, and play a crucial role in the calibration as th…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 2 cited

The model fitting of Gaia DR3 Classical Cepheid light and radial velocity curves

R. Molinaro, M. Marconi, G. De Somma +6

Classical Cepheids are key astrophysical laboratories for studying stellar structure and evolution, and for calibrating the cosmic distance scale. Despite major progress, uncertain…

astro-ph.GA2025

Spatial Age Distribution of Classical Cepheids in Spiral Galaxies: The Cases of M31 and M33

Giulia De Somma, Marcella Marconi, Vincenzo Ripepi +5

Classical Cepheids can be used as age indicators due to well-established period-age and period-age-color relations. \citet{Desomma2021} refined these relations by including a metal…

astro-ph.SR2024

Stellar Pulsation and Evolution: a Combined Theoretical Renewal and Updated Models (SPECTRUM) -- I: Updating radiative opacities for pulsation models of Classical Cepheid and RR-Lyrae

Giulia De Somma, Marcella Marconi, Santi Cassisi +1

Pulsating stars are universally recognized as precise distance indicators and tracers of stellar populations. Their variability, combined with well-defined relationships between pu…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 16 cited

Cepheid Metallicity in the Leavitt Law (C- MetaLL) survey: VI: Radial abundance gradients of 29 chemical species in the Milky Way Disk

E. Trentin, G. Catanzaro, V. Ripepi +9

Classical Cepheids (DCEPs) are crucial for calibrating the extragalactic distance ladder, ultimately enabling the determination of the Hubble constant through the PL and PW relatio…

gr-qc2024★ 19 cited

A critical discussion on the tension

Salvatore Capozziello, Giuseppe Sarracino, Giulia De Somma

A critical discussion on the Hubble constant tension is presented by considering both early and late-type observations. From recent precise measurements, discrepancies emerge…

astro-ph.SR2024

The Hertzsprung progression of Classical Cepheids in the Gaia era

Marcella Marconi, Giulia De Somma, Roberto Molinaro +6

A new fine grid of nonlinear convective pulsation models for the so-called "bump Cepheids" is presented to investigate the Hertzprung progression (HP) phenomenon shown by their lig…

astro-ph.SR2024

Classical Cepheid Pulsation properties in the Rubin-LSST filters

Giulia De Somma, Marcella Marconi, Santi Cassisi +8

Homogeneous multi-wavelength observations of classical Cepheids from the forthcoming Rubin-LSST have the potential to significantly contribute to our understanding of the evolution…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 1 cited

The VMC Survey -- L. Type II Cepheids in the Magellanic Clouds

Teresa Sicignano, Vincenzo Ripepi, Marcella Marconi +9

Type II Cepheids (T2C) are less frequently used counterparts of classical Cepheids which provide the primary calibration of the distance ladder for measuring in the local Uni…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 2 cited

Cepheid Metallicity in the Leavitt Law (C-MetaLL) Survey. V. New multiband (grizJHKs) Cepheid light curves and period-luminosity relations

A. Bhardwaj, V. Ripepi, V. Testa +8

We present homogeneous multiband (grizJHKs) time-series observations of 78 Cepheids including 49 fundamental mode variables and 29 first-overtone mode variables. These observations…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 3 cited

Cepheid Metallicity in the Leavitt Law (C- MetaLL) survey: IV. The metallicity dependence of Cepheid Period-Luminosity relations

E. Trentin, V. Ripepi, R. Molinaro +10

Classical Cepheids (DCEPs) play a fundamental role in the calibration of the extra-galactic distance ladder which eventually leads to the determination of the Hubble constant(…

astro-ph.GA2023

First spectroscopic investigation of Anomalous Cepheid variables

V. Ripepi, G. Catanzaro, E. Trentin +12

Anomalous Cepheids (ACEPs) are intermediate mass metal-poor pulsators mostly discovered in dwarf galaxies of the Local Group. However, recent Galactic surveys, including the Gaia D…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 18 cited

Precise Empirical Determination of Metallicity Dependence of Near-infrared Period-Luminosity Relations for RR Lyrae Variables

Anupam Bhardwaj, Marcella Marconi, Marina Rejkuba +9

RR Lyrae variables are excellent population II distance indicators thanks to their well-defined period-luminosity relations (PLRs) at infrared wavelengths. We present results of ne…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 22 cited

Cepheid metallicity in the Leavitt law (C-MetaLL) survey -- III. Simultaneous derivation of the Gaia parallax offset and Period-Luminosity-Metallicity coefficients

R. Molinaro, V. Ripepi, M. Marconi +7

Classical Cepheids (DCEPs) are the most important standard candles in the extra-galactic distance scale thanks to the Period-Luminosity (), Period-Luminosity-Color ($\rm PL…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 26 cited

Cepheid Metallicity in the Leavitt Law (C- MetaLL) survey: II.High-resolution spectroscopy of the most metal poor Galactic Cepheids

E. Trentin, V. Ripepi, G. Catanzaro +5

Classical Cepheids (DCEPs) are the first fundamental step in the calibration of the cosmological distance ladder. Furthermore, they represent powerful tracers in the context of Gal…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 8 cited

Rubin Observatory LSST Transients and Variable Stars Roadmap

Kelly M. Hambleton, Federica B. Bianco, Rachel Street +79

The Vera C. Rubin Legacy Survey of Space and Time holds the potential to revolutionize time domain astrophysics, reaching completely unexplored areas of the Universe and mapping va…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 44 cited

An updated metal-dependent theoretical scenario for Classical Cepheids

Giulia De Somma, Marcella Marconi, Roberto Molinaro +3

To properly quantify possible residual systematic errors affecting the Classical Cepheid distance scale, a detailed theoretical scenario is recommended. By extending the set of non…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 43 cited

Cepheid Metallicity in the Leavitt Law (C-MetaLL) survey: I. HARPS-N@TNG spectroscopy of 47 Classical Cepheid and 1 BL Her variables

V. Ripepi, G. Catanzaro, R. Molinaro +11

Classical Cepheids (DCEPs) are the most important primary indicators of the extragalactic distance scale. Establishing the dependence on metallicity of their period--luminosity and…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 17 cited

A theoretical scenario for Galactic RR Lyrae in the Gaia database: constraints on the parallax offset

Marcella Marconi, Roberto Molinaro, Vincenzo Ripepi +5

On the basis of an extended set of nonlinear convective RR Lyrae pulsation models we derive the first theoretical light curves in the Gaia bands and the corresponding intensity-wei…