• DOI:10.1051/0004-6361:20034633
• Corpus ID: 10135176

BVRIJK light curves and radial velocity curves for selected Magellanic Cloud Cepheids

@article{Storm2004BVRIJKLC,
  title={BVRIJK light curves and radial velocity curves for selected Magellanic Cloud Cepheids},
  author={Jesper Storm and Bruce W. Carney and Wolfgang Gieren and Pascal Fouqu{\'e} and Wendy L. Freedman and Barry F. Madore and Michael J. Habgood Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Universidad de Concepcion and Observatoire de Paris and European Southern Observatory and Carnegie Institution of Washington and California Institute of Technology.},
  journal={Astronomy and Astrophysics},
  year={2004},
  volume={415},
  pages={521-529}
}

• J. Storm, B. Carney, +10 authors California Institute of Technology.
• Published 9 January 2004
• Physics
• Astronomy and Astrophysics

We present high-precision and well sampled BVRIJK light curves and radial velocity curves for a sample of five Cepheids in the SMC. In addition we present radial velocity curves for three Cepheids in the LMC. The low-metallicity ([Fe/H] ~ -0.7) SMC stars have been selected for use in a Baade-Wesselink type analysis to constrain the metallicity effect on the Cepheid Period-Luminosity relation. The stars have periods of around 15 days so they are similar to the Cepheids observed by the Extragalactic Distance Scale Key Project on the Hubble Space Telescope. We show that the stars are representative of the SMC Cepheid population at that period and thus will provide a good sample for the proposed analysis. The actual Baade-Wesselink analysis is presented in a companion paper. Based on data acquired at the Las Campanas Observatory, Chile, the Cerro Tololo Inter American Observatory, Chile, and the European Southern Observatory, Chile. Tables 10-27 are only available in electronic form at the CDS via anonymous ftp to cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr (130.79.128.5) or via http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/cgi.bin/qcat?J/A+A/415/521