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most citedA distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud that is precise to one per cent

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astro-ph.GA2026

Interstellar extinction of classical Cepheids from neighboring stars I. Methodology and application to 16 Galactic Cepheids

Wilma Kiviaho, Pierre Kervella, Mika Juvela +21

Galactic Cepheid variable stars are fundamental calibrators of the cosmic distance scale through their Period-Luminosity (PL) relation. The high-precision parallaxes expected from…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 4 cited

VLTI/GRAVITY upper limit on near-infrared emission from the nearby 33 Msun black hole Gaia BH3

Pierre Kervella, Pasquale Panuzzo, Alexandre Gallenne +11

The recent astrometric discovery of the nearby (590 pc) massive () dormant black hole candidate Gaia BH3 offers the possibility to angularly resolve the black hole from…

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.GA2022★ 188 cited

The Gaia-ESO Public Spectroscopic Survey: Implementation, data products, open cluster survey, science, and legacy

S. Randich, G. Gilmore, L. Magrini +161

In the last 15 years different ground-based spectroscopic surveys have been started (and completed) with the general aim of delivering stellar parameters and elemental abundances f…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 28 cited

Inspecting the Cepheid distance ladder: The Hubble Space Telescope distance to the SNIa host galaxy NGC 5584

Behnam Javanmardi, Antoine Mérand, Pierre Kervella +7

The current tension between the direct and the early Universe measurements of the Hubble Constant, , requires detailed scrutiny of all the data and methods used in the studies…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 213 cited

A distance determination to the Small Magellanic Cloud with an accuracy of better than 2 percent based on late-type eclipsing binary stars

Dariusz Graczyk, Grzegorz Pietrzynski, Ian B. Thompson +17

We present a new study of late-type eclipsing binary stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) undertaken with the aim of improving the distance determination to this important gal…