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most citedDiscovery of a dormant 33 solar-mass black hole in pre-release Gaia astrometry

129 citations · 205 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

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 light curve model fitting of LMC Cepheids: MESA-RSP versus Stellingwerf's code predictions

M. Deka, M. Marconi, R. Molinaro +9

A major challenge in modeling classical Cepheids is the treatment of convection, particularly its complex interplay with pulsation. This inherently three-dimensional process is typ…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 2 cited

Cepheid Metallicity in the Leavitt Law (C-MetaLL) survey: IX. Metallicity dependence of Period-Wesenheit relations based on a homogeneous spectroscopic sample

V. Ripepi, E. Trentin, G. Catanzaro +8

The C-MetaLL project has provided homogeneous spectroscopic abundances of 290 Classical Cepheids (DCEPs) for which we have the intensity-averaged magnitudes in multiple optical and…

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.GA2024★ 129 cited

Discovery of a dormant 33 solar-mass black hole in pre-release Gaia astrometry

Gaia Collaboration, P. Panuzzo, T. Mazeh +412

Gravitational waves from black-hole merging events have revealed a population of extra-galactic BHs residing in short-period binaries with masses that are higher than expected base…

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…

astro-ph.SR2024

OGLE GD-CEP-0516: the most metal-poor lithium-rich Galactic Cepheid

G. Catanzaro, V. Ripepi, M. Salaris +1

Classical Cepheids (DCEPs) are important astrophysical objects not only as standard candles for the determination of the cosmic distance ladder but also as a test-bed for the stell…

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★ 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…