Astrometry with Hubble Space Telescope: A Parallax of the Fundamental Distance Calibrator delta Cephei
@article{Benedict2002AstrometryWH, title={Astrometry with Hubble Space Telescope: A Parallax of the Fundamental Distance Calibrator delta Cephei}, author={G. Fritz Benedict and Barbara E. Mcarthur and Laurence W. Fredrick and Thomas E. Harrison and Catherine Slesnick and J. Rhee and Richard J. Patterson and Michael F. Skrutskie and Otto G. Franz and Lawrence H. Wasserman and William H. Jefferys and Edmund P. Nelan and Wm. F. van Altena and Peter John Shelus and Paul D. Hemenway and Raynor Lockwood Duncombe and Darrell B. Story and Arthur L. Whipple and Arthur J. Bradley}, journal={arXiv: Astrophysics}, year={2002} }
We present an absolute parallax and relative proper motion for the fundamental distance scale calibrator, delta Cep. We obtain these with astrometric data from FGS 3, a white-light interferometer on HST. Utilizing spectrophotometric estimates of the absolute parallaxes of our astrometric reference stars and constraining delta Cep and reference star HD 213307 to belong to the same association (Cep OB6, de Zeeuw et al. 1999), we find pi_{abs} = 3.66 +/- 0.15 mas. The larger than typical…
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