Unifies HST parallaxes to obtain IC1613 distance ~24.39 mag and disfavors large Cepheid metallicity corrections γ(W_VI) of -0.25 or -0.50 mag dex⁻¹ relative to TRGB benchmarks.
Using Local Group Galaxies to Investigate the Influence of Blending on Cepheid Distances and the Cosmological Distance Scale
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We investigate the influence of blending on the Cepheid distance scale using two Local Group galaxies, M31 and M33. Blending leads to systematically low distances to galaxies observed with the HST, and therefore to systematically high estimates of H_0. High-resolution HST images are compared to our ground-based data, obtained as part of the DIRECT project, for a sample of 22 Cepheids in M31 and 102 Cepheids in M33. For a sample of 22 Cepheids in M31, the average (median) flux contribution from luminous companions not resolved on the ground-based images in the V-band, S_V, is about 19% (12%) of the flux of the Cepheid. For 102 Cepheids in M33 the average (median) values of S_V, S_I, S_B are 23% (13%), 28% (20%), 28% (15%). For 64 Cepheids in M33 with periods in excess of 10 days the average (median) S_V, S_I, S_B are 16% (7%), 23% (12%), 20% (10%).
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Evaluating Cepheid Metallicity Effect Determinations via IC1613 and Gaia-independent Parallaxes
Unifies HST parallaxes to obtain IC1613 distance ~24.39 mag and disfavors large Cepheid metallicity corrections γ(W_VI) of -0.25 or -0.50 mag dex⁻¹ relative to TRGB benchmarks.