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Systematics in the Cepheid and TRGB Distance Scales: Metallicity Sensitivity of the Wesenheit Leavitt Law
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Systematics in the Cepheid and TRGB Distance Scales: Metallicity Sensitivity of the Wesenheit Leavitt Law
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Using an updated and significantly augmented sample of Cepheid and TRGB distances to 28 nearby spiral and irregular galaxies, covering a wide range of metallicities, we have searched for evidence of a correlation of the zero-point of the Cepheid Period-Luminosity relation with HII region (gas-phase) metallicities. Our analysis, for the 21 galaxies closer than 12.5 Mpc, results in the following conclusions: (1) The zero points of the Cepheid and TRGB distance scales are in remarkably good agreement, with the mean offset in the zero points of the most nearby distance-selected sample being close to zero, Delta mod_o(Cepheid - TRGB) = -0.026 +\- 0.015 mag (for an I-band TRGB zero point of M_I = -4.05 mag); however, for the more distant sample, there is a larger offset between the two distance scales, amounting to -0.073 +/- 0.057 mag. (2) The individual differences, about that mean, have a measured scatter of +/- 0.068~mag. (3) We find no statistically significant evidence for a metallicity dependence in the Cepheid distance scale using the reddening-free W(V,VI) period-luminosity relation: Delta mod_o (Cepheid - TRGB) = -0.022 (+/- 0.015) \times ([O/H]-8.50) - 0.003 (+/- 0.007)
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