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Into the Darkness: Classical and Type II Cepheids in the Zona Galactica Incognita

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Pith's one-line read This paper reports the discovery of 640 distant classical Cepheids and more than 500 type II Cepheids in the heavily obscured inner Galaxy and far side of the Milky Way disk, and uses them to measure the near-infrared extinction law and…

desk verdict A major far-side Cepheid catalog, but its distance scale rests on a single extinction-calibration assumption that deserves a stress test. read the letter →

arxiv 1908.08290 v1 pith:OVKYWC27 submitted 2019-08-22 astro-ph.SR astro-ph.GAastro-ph.IM

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The reading

The paper aims to open the "Zona Galactica Incognita," the heavily obscured far side of the Milky Way's disk, to stellar mapping. Using near-infrared time-series photometry of the southern Galactic plane, it discovers 640 new distant classical Cepheids, some behind up to roughly 40 magnitudes of visual extinction, and more than 500 type II Cepheids, most in the inner bulge. A convolutional neural network classifies the light curves, and a second neural network predicts the pulsation-phase color corrections that turn sparse photometry into unbiased reddening estimates. From these it derives a steep, spatially varying near-infrared extinction curve toward the bulge and calibrates the selective-to-absolute extinction ratios by aligning the bulge type II Cepheids' distance peak with the known Galactic-center distance. If the calibration holds, the far side of the disk now has stellar distance indicators, and the claimed warp, flaring, and radial age gradient of the thin disk follow.

What carries the argument

The central machinery is a convolutional neural network that treats a phase-folded, phase-aligned, standardized $K_s$-band light curve as a one-dimensional image, with the pulsation period and amplitude added as extra input channels; it classifies candidates as classical Cepheid, type II Cepheid, or non-Cepheid. A second neural network predicts the phase-dependent color corrections $\Delta(J-K_s)$ and $\Delta(H-K_s)$ from the $K_s$-band light-curve parameters, so that sparse $J$ and $H$ photometry can be converted into unbiased mean colors. What carries the distance argument is the near-infrared period-luminosity relation, the tight empirical connection between a Cepheid's pulsation period and its absolute brightness: it fixes the absolute magnitude from the period, so a measured $K_s$ magnitude and color give the extinction and the distance once the selective-to-absolute extinction ratio is known. That ratio is pinned down by assuming the bulge type II Cepheids are centrally symmetric around the Galactic center and tuning the ratio until the peak of their line-of-sight distance distribution matches the known Galactic-center distance.

What would settle it

Measure distances for the bright bulge type II Cepheids with independent geometric or trigonometric parallaxes and compare the peak of their line-of-sight distance distribution with the established Galactic-center distance of 8178 pc; a mismatch larger than the quoted uncertainties would show that the symmetry assumption used to set the extinction ratios is wrong.

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Core claim

The central discovery is that stellar distance indicators can be found and used in the most obscured part of the Galaxy, the far side of the disk and the inner bulge. From five years of near-infrared time-series photometry of the southern Galactic plane, the paper reports 689 classical Cepheids (640 of them new) with extinctions reaching about 40 magnitudes in the visual, and 608 type II Cepheids, most in the bulge. A convolutional neural network separates the two classes from $K_s$-band light curves, and the authors estimate about 10% contamination in each sample. Using neural-network predictions of pulsation-phase color variation, the Cepheids become reddening tracers; the bulge type II Cepheids then yield mean extinction ratios $A(K_s)/E(J-K_s)=0.528\pm0.004$ (stat.) $\pm0.019$ (sys.) and $A(K_s)/E(H-K_s)=1.50\pm0.01$ (stat.) $\pm0.05$ (sys.), and reveal a near-infrared extinction curve that varies on roughly $5^\circ$ scales. With those distances, the classical Cepheids trace a warped, flared outer disk and a radial age gradient, while the type II Cepheids trace a centrally concentrated, slightly elongated old bulge population.

Load-bearing premise

The calibration of how much total extinction corresponds to a measured reddening assumes that the bulge type II Cepheids are spread symmetrically around the Galactic center along our line of sight; if their true distribution is lopsided or tilted with a density gradient, those extinction ratios and every distance built on them shift.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • The far side of the Galactic disk now has stellar distance indicators out to roughly 20 kpc, so maps of the warp and flare no longer rely only on gas kinematics or near-side tracers.
  • The mean near-infrared reddening ratio $E(J-K_s)/E(H-K_s)\simeq2.83$ agrees between the bulge and disk footprints, yet varies by about 2% on angular scales of about $5^\circ$ toward the bulge; distance work in the inner Galaxy therefore needs a spatially resolved extinction law.
  • Bulge type II Cepheids form a centrally concentrated, slightly elongated old population whose inclination matches the inner RR Lyrae distribution, supporting a radius-dependent orientation of the old bulge.
  • Cepheid ages in the far disk show a radial and vertical gradient: stars younger than about 70 Myr concentrate inside the Solar circle, while stars older than about 120 Myr are found outside it and farther from the plane.
  • With the new extinction law, only 9 classical Cepheids lie within 3 kpc of the Galactic center and 3 within 2 kpc, so the earlier claim of a young disk crossing the inner Milky Way is no longer clearly supported.

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Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • This suggests that applying the same convolutional-network classification and neural color-correction to near-infrared time-domain surveys of the northern mid-plane would turn the warp and flare measurements into a full 360-degree map of the disk, testable against gas-based spiral models.
  • If the spatial variation of the near-infrared extinction law on $5^\circ$ scales is real, single-band distance estimates in the inner Galaxy carry an irreducible systematic error; this could be checked by comparing Cepheid distances with future precise parallaxes for a subsample.
  • The symmetry-based extinction calibration could be stress-tested with a simulated triaxial bar: a tilted bar with a density gradient along the line of sight would bias the fitted extinction ratios, and the size of that bias could be quantified without new observations.
  • The neural color-correction method should transfer to RR Lyrae stars and Miras, turning other pulsators into unbiased reddening tracers in crowded, highly extincted fields.
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3 major / 5 minor

Summary. This paper presents a near-infrared census of classical and type II Cepheids in the VVV southern disk and inner-bulge footprint. The authors recalibrate the VVV photometry, build a convolutional-neural-network classifier on phase-folded Ks-band light curves using a training set of 188 classical and 356 type II Cepheids, apply it to about 40,000 candidates, visually inspect the outputs, and obtain a final sample of 689 classical Cepheids (640 new) and 608 type II Cepheids (over 500 in the inner bulge). They predict pulsation-phase color corrections with neural networks, derive the reddening ratio R_JKHK = 2.832 ± 0.004 and the selective-to-absolute extinction ratios R_KJK = 0.528 and R_KHK = 1.50 (Eqs. 22 and 24), compute heliocentric distances, and use the resulting three-dimensional distribution to trace the bulge population, the Galactic warp and flare, and radial and vertical age gradients in the far-side disk.

Significance. If the distances are reliable, this is a landmark data set: it populates the previously obscured far side of the Milky Way disk with standard candles, provides new constraints on the near-infrared extinction curve in the inner Galaxy, and offers the first Cepheid-based view of the warp, flare, and age structure beyond the Galactic center. The paper is unusually strong in data products and method transparency, with machine-readable light curves and catalogs, a careful discussion of VVV photometric zero-point problems, and a synthetic-noise validation of the classifier. The central scientific payoff, however, rests on the Sect. 4.3 extinction-ratio calibration, whose symmetry and completeness assumptions are not validated against plausible lopsided bulge models or the survey's own strong extinction gradient. The quoted systematic uncertainties are internal to the estimator and cannot capture a biased distance mode, so the distance scale and all downstream spatial-structure conclusions require a robustness test before the census can be taken at face value.

major comments (3)
  1. [Sect. 4.3, Eqs. (22)-(24), Table 8] The calibration of R_KJK = A(Ks)/E(J-Ks) is obtained by forcing the KDE peak of dY = d_H cos b cos l for bulge type II Cepheids to R0 = 8178 pc. This is valid only if the underlying three-dimensional distribution is centrally symmetric about the Galactic center and if the observed sample is unbiased in distance. Both assumptions are questionable in the inner Galaxy: a lopsided or tilted bar/density asymmetry shifts the distance mode, and the survey's own extinction map implies that far-side bulge Cepheids are preferentially missed, pulling the observed dY mode to the near side. Tuning the observed mode to R0 then changes the inferred R_KJK; for the completeness effect alone, the fit would likely bias R_KJK low rather than high, because a smaller A(Ks) is needed to push near-side stars outward. Equations (22) and (24) enter every distance in Table 8 and therefore all warp, flare, and age-gradient results in Sect. 5. The ±0.019 systematic in Eq. (22) comes from Monte Carlo resampling of the same estimator and cannot capture this mode bias. I request a forward-model test: generate mock bulge type II Cepheids from a triaxial or lopsided density model, apply the magnitude- and position-dependent VVV completeness function, run the same KDE/R0 fitting procedure, and report the resulting bias in R_KJK. If this bias is comparable to or larger than 0.019, the systematic errors and the distances derived from them need to be enlarged accordingly.
  2. [Sect. 3.3 and Sect. 3.8 (training set and final sample)] Forty-eight of the 188 classical Cepheid training examples were selected by the authors' tentative distance-extinction consistency method (delta >= 3, d < 7.5 kpc, Sect. 3.3 and Fig. 4), using the same PL relations, extinction-map assumptions, and reddening framework that are later used to derive distances in Sects. 4.2-4.3. Because the final DCEP/T2CEP classification of the survey data is made by a CNN trained on this set, any systematic error in that selection can imprint itself on the census of 640 new classical Cepheids in a way that cross-validation accuracy cannot detect, since the same assumptions are embedded in the labels. The authors state that the selection is insensitive to the extinction law within the range considered, but a direct test would be more convincing: retrain the CNN without the 48 internally selected objects and compare the classifications and final counts on the full candidate sample. If the census changes materially, the overlap between the training selection and the distance analysis should be disclosed and discussed as a systematic limitation.
  3. [Sect. 5.2, Fig. 22] The claimed significant vertical and radial age gradients rest on period-age relations from Anderson et al. (2016), evaluated at metallicities assigned from a near-side radial metallicity gradient, with no individual metallicities or rotation/instability-strip information for the far-side Cepheids. The authors acknowledge the P ~ 10 d classification confusion and the modeling assumptions, but the age gradient is presented as one of the main discoveries. I ask for a robustness test: recompute the median-age curves with a +/-0.2 dex shift in the adopted [Fe/H] and with the alternative instability-strip-crossing and rotation choices in Anderson et al. (2016), and state whether the gradient slope and significance survive.
minor comments (5)
  1. [Sect. 3.2 and Sect. 3.7] There are typographical errors: 'stranderdized' in Sect. 3.2 should be 'standardized', and 'in oder' in Sect. 3.7 should be 'in order'.
  2. [Sect. 4.2, Fig. 14] The text says the quoted errors on R_JKHK include all statistical and systematic uncertainties, but the binned spatial-variation analysis in the same section explicitly uses statistical errors only; please clarify which components are included in the quoted +/-0.004 and in the binned values shown in Fig. 15.
  3. [Sect. 3.5, Fig. 8] The synthetic-noise test draws noise realizations added to signals from the training set itself, so the performance curves may be slightly optimistic; this is stated in the text, but it would be useful to add the same caveat directly in the figure caption.
  4. [Sect. 3.7] The OGLE comparison is based on only 41 common objects and the estimated recall of 0.92 should be quoted with a binomial confidence interval rather than as a point value, given the small sample size.
  5. [Table 8 and Fig. 19] Objects with dH > 40-50 kpc and small A(Ks) are explicitly suspected to be misclassified; consider adding a classification-quality or distance-quality flag to the electronic catalog so that downstream users do not treat all 689 distances as being of uniform reliability.

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No significant circularity: the extinction scale is anchored to the external GRAVITY R0 and independent PL relations, and the central-symmetry assumption is explicit rather than concealed.

full rationale

The paper's derivation chain is: CNN classification (with literature/OGLE training plus 48 authors' candidates) -> mean colors via neural color-correction -> color excesses from PL relations -> reddening ratio R_JKHK (a slope of E(J-Ks) versus E(H-Ks), independent of the absolute extinction scale) -> selective-to-absolute ratios by forcing the bulge type II Cepheid dY peak to the GRAVITY-measured R0 = 8178 pc -> distances via Eq. 25. The calibration step in Sect. 4.3 is an explicit calibration to an external anchor, not a prediction masquerading as a test. The central-symmetry assumption is stated openly and is not derived from the data; the resulting shape and elongation of the T2C distribution retain independent content. The 48 classical Cepheids added to the CNN training set were selected by the authors' earlier distance-extinction consistency method, and the paper explicitly checks that the same selection is obtained with the later extinction ratios and validates the classifier against OGLE classifications; this is a selection detail, not a reduction of the later extinction or distance measurements to the training labels. Self-citations (Dekany et al. 2013, 2015b, 2018; Hajdu et al. 2019) are methodological or contextual and are not load-bearing circular justifications. No equation in the paper is equivalent to its input by construction, and no fitted parameter is renamed as a prediction. The main scientific claims (640 new classical Cepheids, warp/flare, age gradients) depend on the calibrated extinction law but are not identical to the calibration input. Therefore no circular step is identified.

Assumptions & free parameters 3 free parameters · 5 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The central distance-dependent results rest on a small number of externally calibrated relations and one geometric assumption. The near-IR extinction coefficients are fitted quantities, not first-principles derivations. The main internal consistency risk is the use of the same type II Cepheid sample for both extinction calibration and bulge/distance science, and the use of self-selected classical Cepheid training examples.

free parameters (3)
  • RKJK = A(Ks)/E(J-Ks) = 0.528 +/- 0.004 (stat) +/- 0.019 (sys)
    Fitted in Sect. 4.3 by varying the value until the kernel density peak of the type II Cepheid line-of-sight distance distribution matches the GRAVITY R0. Used in Eq. 22 and to compute all distances.
  • RJKHK = E(J-Ks)/E(H-Ks) = 2.832 +/- 0.004 (bulge); 2.833 +/- 0.004 (disk)
    Fitted by Bayesian linear regression to the color excess distribution in Sect. 4.2. Combined with RKJK to derive RKHK.
  • RKHK = A(Ks)/E(H-Ks) = 1.50 +/- 0.01 (stat) +/- 0.05 (sys)
    Adopted in Sect. 4.3 (Eq. 24) by combining the mean RJKHK with the fitted RKJK; used with RKJK to compute distances.
assumptions (5)
  • domain assumption Type II Cepheids in the bulge are centrally symmetric about the Galactic center (Sgr A*).
    Used in Sect. 4.3 to calibrate the extinction coefficients by requiring the distance distribution to peak at R0 = 8178 pc. If the distribution is lopsided along the sightline, the coefficients and all derived distances shift.
  • domain assumption The adopted near-infrared period-luminosity relations (Macri et al. 2015; Bhardwaj et al. 2017, transformed to VISTA) are valid for the surveyed Cepheids.
    Equations 13-21. The zero-points are adjusted to the LMC distance modulus; errors in these relations propagate into all distances and extinction estimates.
  • domain assumption The period-age relations of Anderson et al. (2016), with metallicities from the Genovali et al. (2014) and Luck (2018) radial gradients, apply to these Cepheids.
    Used in Sect. 5.2 to compute individual ages. Rotation and instability-strip crossing are averaged over, and individual metallicities are unknown.
  • domain assumption The recalibrated VVV photometry (Hajdu et al. 2019) is free of systematic zero-point errors at the level claimed.
    The entire analysis depends on the recalibrated photometric zero-points described in Sect. 2.2; residual zero-point errors would bias colors and extinctions.
  • domain assumption The CNN training set, including 48 self-selected VVV classical Cepheids, is representative of the survey's target population.
    Sect. 3.3. The data-mismatch test uses synthetic noise added to the same labeled examples, so the ~10% contamination estimate may be optimistic.

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Pith. "Pith review of Into the Darkness: Classical and Type II Cepheids in the Zona Galactica Incognita." pith.science (2026). https://pith.science/paper/OVKYWC27

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  title        = {Pith review of: Into the Darkness: Classical and Type II Cepheids in the Zona Galactica Incognita},
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The far side of the Milky Way's disk is one of the most concealed parts of the known Universe due to extremely high interstellar extinction and point source density toward low Galactic latitudes. Large time-domain photometric surveys operating in the near-infrared hold great potential for the exploration of these vast uncharted areas of our Galaxy. We conducted a census of distant classical and type II Cepheids along the southern Galactic mid-plane using near-infrared photometry from the VISTA Variables in the V\'ia L\'actea survey. We performed a machine-learned classification of the Cepheids based on their infrared light curves using a convolutional neural network. We have discovered 640 distant classical Cepheids with up to ~40 magnitudes of visual extinction, and over 500 type II Cepheids, most of them located in the inner bulge. Intrinsic color indices of individual Cepheids were predicted from sparse photometric data using a neural network, allowing their use as accurate reddening tracers. They revealed a steep, spatially varying near-infrared extinction curve toward the inner bulge. Type II Cepheids in the Galactic bulge were also employed to measure robust mean selective-to-absolute extinction ratios. They trace a centrally concentrated spatial distribution of the old bulge population with a slight elongation, consistent with earlier results from RR Lyrae stars. Likewise, the classical Cepheids were utilized to trace the Galactic warp and various substructures of the Galactic disk, and to uncover significant vertical and radial age gradients of the thin disk population at the far side of the Milky Way.

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Figure 1
Figure 1. Ks-band light curves of the same Cepheid toward the central bulge, phase-folded with the best-fitting period shown in the upper left corner. The left panel shows photometry calibrated by CASU, the right panel displays recalibrated photometry according to Hajdu et al. (2019). increasing period. This bump is a characteristic light curve detail that can be used to distinguish some clas￾sical Cepheids from other types o… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Fourier parameters of the I-band light curves of fundamental-mode classical Cepheids in the Large Magel￾lanic Cloud, observed by the OGLE survey (Soszy´nski et al. 2015). (e.g., Krizhevsky et al. 2012; Simonyan, & Zisserman 2014). At the same time, CNNs have been also suc￾cessfully employed in one-dimensional (sequence) data in diverse fields ranging from natural language process￾ing (e.g., Dauphin et al. 2016) to m… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Phase-folded, phase-aligned and standardized light curve models of all classical Cepheids in our training set (gray curves). Black points denote the light curve model evaluated in 38 equidistant phase points for one training ex￾ample, which serves as an input sequence of our CNN clas￾sifier (see Sect. 3.1). that their extinctions and distances become consistent under the classical Cepheid assumption). We selected th… view at source ↗
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Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Weighted standard deviations of the absolute Ks-band extinction computed from the VVV photometry (see text) with respect to the corresponding extinction values from Gonzalez et al. (2012) as a function of Heliocentric dis￾tance for our bulge Cepheid candidates (black p…
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Summary of the CNN architectures evaluated in our model selection procedure, with data propagating from bottom to top (see text for details). Each rectangle repre￾sents a building block of the model, and their tunable hyper￾parameters are listed in italics. Optional mo…
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Left: training (TR, red) and cross-validation (CV, green) loss as a function of training epochs. Semi-transparent thin curves show the loss per fold, thick curves show their mean. Right: classification accuracy of the training and validation sets as a function of train…
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Confusion matrix of our CNN classifier measured by 10-fold cross-validation [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_7.png]
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Left panel: performance estimates as a function of mean apparent Ks magnitude, using a bin size of 0.5 mag. Right panel: as in left panel but showing cumulative distributions. The figure keys have the following notation: A: overall accuracy; P, R, F1, A’: binary precis…
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: Light curve of an eclipsing binary star misclassified as a classical Cepheid by our CNN classifier. The photometric measurements are phase-folded with the (incorrect) period found by our algorithm (left panel) and its doubled value (right panel). The red curve shows th…
Figure 10
Figure 10. Figure 10: Distribution of objects classified as type II Cepheids (top) and classical Cepheids (bottom) in our final sample, shown in the Galactic coordinate system. Individual objects are represented by gray dots, the color scale represents their kernel density estimate [PITH_…
Figure 11
Figure 11. Figure 11: Histogram of the periods of the objects clas￾sified as classical Cepheids (DCEP, filled bars) or type II Cepheids (T2CEP, step curves) shown on a logarithmic scale. The blue and the red colors represent subsamples from the VVV survey’s bulge and disk footprints, respe…
Figure 12
Figure 12. Figure 12: Gray points: normalized and phase-aligned color curves of the classical Cepheids (left and middle) and type II Cepheids (right) in the training sets of our predictive models of the color index. Black points: mean absolute cross-validation error of our predictive model…
Figure 13
Figure 13. Figure 13: Phase-folded Ks-band light curves (upper panels) and J − Ks color index curves (lower panels) of two classical Cepheids from our disk sample. In the upper panels, black symbols mark the observational data and their errors, red curves denote the fitted light curve mode…
Figure 15
Figure 15. Figure 15: Spatial variations in the RJKHK reddening ratio as a function of Galactic longitude (top) and latitude (bottom) over the bulge area of our study, using bin sizes of 5 ◦ and 0.5 ◦ , respectively. inating from the PL relations would affect all binned subsamples in the s…
Figure 16
Figure 16. Figure 16: Histogram of the dY distance components (see text.) of the bulge type II Cepheid sample with log P < 1.3 and the corresponding kernel density estimate (black curve, arbitrarily scaled up to match the histogram) for a trial value of RKJK. 0.46 0.48 0.50 0.52 0.54 0.56 …
Figure 17
Figure 17. Figure 17: Variation of the Rˆ0 as a function of the RKJK (see text) are shown by black curves, each curve represent￾ing one realization of the Monte Carlo simulation of statis￾tical errors. The green shaded area shows the total uncer￾tainty around the value of R0 by Gravity Col…
Figure 18
Figure 18. Figure 18: Kernel density estimate of the projected dis￾tance distribution of type II Cepheids in the Galactic bulge from latitudinal ranges shown in the figure, represented as a color scale and contour lines. The white dashed lines show the l = ±2 ◦ and l = ±5 ◦ sight-lines. Th…
Figure 19
Figure 19. Figure 19: Histogram of the Heliocentric distances of classical Cepheids on a logarithmic scale. of dH > 40 kpc, and only 8% of them have dH > 50 kpc. Most of these objects with anomalously large distances have small S/N (. 100), and are most probably mis￾classified. The latter …
Figure 20
Figure 20. Figure 20: Top panels: histograms of the Ks-band extinction (left) and the apparent mean Ks magnitude of the classical Cepheids in our sample. Bottom panels: distributions of the Z distance from the Galactic plane marginalized over the projected Heliocentric (dH,proj., left pane…
Figure 21
Figure 21. Figure 21: Left: the spatial distributions of the classical Cepheids in our sample projected onto the Galactic plane. The red ‘x’ symbol marks the position of the Galactic center. Crosses and diamonds of different sizes indicate how far above or below, respectively, the objects …
Figure 22
Figure 22. Figure 22: Left panel: black points denote median ages of classical Cepheids in the Galactic disk computed for 10 subsamples in 2 kpc-wide overlapping bins of Galactocentric cylindrical distance. The vertical bars show error estimates of the median, the horizontal bars mark the …
Figure 23
Figure 23. Figure 23: Spatial distribution of the classical Cepheids projected onto the Galactic plane. Black and red points show the positions of Cepheids with P ≤ 10 d and P > 10 d, respectively. The color scale and the white contours denote a kernel density estimate of the distribution …
Figure 24
Figure 24. Figure 24: Comparison of the mean apparent Ks magnitudes (left), H − Ks color indices (middle), and Ks-band absolute extinctions (right) of the D´ek´any et al. (2015b) Cepheid sample as presented in that study (denoted as ‘old’) vs our present analysis (denoted as ‘new’). 0.45 0…
Figure 25
Figure 25. Figure 25: The mean selective-to-absolute extinction ra￾tio derived from the Cepheid sample in this paper, in com￾parison with literature values from Nishiyama et al. (2009, N09), Indebetouw et al. (2005, I05), Chen et al. (2018, C18) and Schlafly et al. (2016, S16, in conjuncti…

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