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astro-ph.SR2026

Classical Cepheids in the JWST and Roman Era: A New Theoretical Framework and its Metallicity Dependence

Giulia De Somma, Marcella Marconi, Vincenzo Ripepi +7

Classical Cepheids are fundamental distance indicators that anchor the cosmic distance ladder through their Period-Luminosity, Period-Luminosity-Color, and Period-Wesenheit relatio…

astro-ph.SR2026

Determination of [Fe/H] in Fundamental mode Classical Cepheids from Gaia DR3 light curve Fourier parameters

Roberto Molinaro, Vincenzo Ripepi, Marcella Marconi +9

Estimating the iron abundance ([Fe/H]) of Classical Cepheids (CCs) is crucial both for validating the cosmic distance scale through the Period-Luminosity relation and for tracing t…

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.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.SR2023★ 16 cited

Gaia Focused Product Release: Sources from Service Interface Function image analysis -- Half a million new sources in omega Centauri

Gaia Collaboration, K. Weingrill, A. Mints +400

Gaia's readout window strategy is challenged by very dense fields in the sky. Therefore, in addition to standard Gaia observations, full Sky Mapper (SM) images were recorded for ni…

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.SR2023

Gaia Focused Product Release: Radial velocity time series of long-period variables

Gaia Collaboration, M. Trabucchi, N. Mowlavi +403

The third Gaia Data Release (DR3) provided photometric time series of more than 2 million long-period variable (LPV) candidates. Anticipating the publication of full radial-velocit…

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.SR2022

New theoretical Period-Luminosity-Metallicity relations for RR Lyrae in the Rubin-LSST filters

Marcella Marconi, Roberto Molinaro, Massimo Dall'Ora +8

The revolutionary power of future Rubin-LSST observations will allow us to significantly improve the physics of pulsating stars, including RR Lyrae. In this context, an updated the…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 143 cited

Gaia Data Release 3. Summary of the variability processing and analysis

L. Eyer, M. Audard, B. Holl +55

Context. Gaia has been in operations since 2014. The third Gaia data release expands from the early data release (EDR3) in 2020 by providing 34 months of multi-epoch observations t…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 2 cited

Gaia DR3: Specific processing and validation of all-sky RR Lyrae and Cepheid stars -- The RR Lyrae sample

G. Clementini, V. Ripepi, A. Garofalo +18

Gaia DR3 publishes a catalogue of full-sky RR Lyrae stars (RRLs) observed during the initial 34 months of science operations, that were processed through the Specific Object Study…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 92 cited

Gaia DR3: Specific processing and validation of all-sky RR Lyrae and Cepheid stars -- The Cepheid sample

V. Ripepi, G. Clementini, R. Molinaro +19

Context. Cepheids are pulsating stars that play a crucial role in several astrophysical contexts. Among the different types, the Classical Cepheids are fundamental tools for the ca…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 46 cited

Classical Cepheid period-Wesenheit-metallicity relation in the Gaia bands

V. Ripepi, G. Catanzaro, G. Clementini +7

Classical Cepheids (DCEPs) represent a fundamental tool to calibrate the extragalactic distance scale. However, they are also powerful stellar population tracers in the context of…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 31 cited

Period-Age-Metallicity and Period-Age-Color-Metallicity relations for Classical Cepheids: an application to the Gaia EDR3 sample

Giulia De Somma, Marcella Marconi, Santi Cassisi +5

Based on updated pulsation models for Classical Cepheids, computed for various assumptions about the metallicity and helium abundance, roughly representative of pulsators in the Sm…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 11 cited

HD344787: a true Polaris analogue?

V. Ripepi, G. Catanzaro, L. Molnár +10

Classical Cepheids (DCEPs) are the most important primary indicators for the extragalactic distance scale, but they are also important objects per se, allowing us to put constraint…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 340 cited

Gaia Early Data Release 3: The Gaia Catalogue of Nearby Stars

Gaia Collaboration, R. L. Smart, L. M. Sarro +420

We produce a clean and well-characterised catalogue of objects within 100\,pc of the Sun from the \G\ Early Data Release 3. We characterise the catalogue through comparisons to the…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 30 cited

On the Period--Luminosity--Metallicity relation of Classical Cepheids

V. Ripepi, G. Catanzaro, R. Molinaro +7

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

astro-ph.SR2020★ 9 cited

Predicted masses of Galactic Cepheids in the Gaia Data Release 2

Marcella Marconi, Giulia De Somma, Vincenzo Ripepi +4

On the basis of recently computed nonlinear convective pulsation models of Galactic Cepheids, spanning wide ranges of input stellar parameters, we derive theoretical mass-dependent…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 21 cited

Updated theoretical Period-Age and Period-Age-Color relations for Galactic Classical Cepheids: an application to the Gaia DR2 sample

Giulia De Somma, Marcella Marconi, Santi Cassisi +4

Updated evolutionary and pulsational model predictions are combined in order to interpret the properties of Galactic Classical Cepheids in the Gaia Data Release 2. In particular, t…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 13 cited

V363 Cas: a new lithium rich Galactic Cepheid

G. Catanzaro, V. Ripepi, G. Clementini +8

Classical Cepheids (DCEPs) are important astrophysical objects not only as standard candles in the determination of the cosmic distance ladder, but also as a testbed for the stella…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 1 cited

The Gaia-LSST Synergy: resolved stellar populations in selected Local Group stellar systems

G. Clementini, I. Musella, A. Chieffi +18

This project aims at exploiting the wide-field and limiting-magnitude capabilities of the LSST to fully characterise the resolved stellar populations in/around six Local Group stel…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 130 cited

A re-classification of Cepheids in the Gaia Data Release 2

V. Ripepi, R. Molinaro, I. Musella +3

Classical Cepheids are the most important primary indicators for the extragalactic distance scale. Establishing the precise zero points of their Period-Luminosity and Period-Wesenh…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 71 cited

Gaia Data Release 2: Summary of the variability processing & analysis results

B. Holl, M. Audard, K. Nienartowicz +60

The Gaia Data Release 2 (DR2): we summarise the processing and results of the identification of variable source candidates of RR Lyrae stars, Cepheids, long period variables (LPVs)…