Star-formation histories, abundances, and kinematics of dwarf galaxies in the Local Group

E Tolstoy, V Hill, M Tosi - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2009 - annualreviews.org
Within the Local Universe galaxies can be studied in great detail star by star, and here we
review the results of quantitative studies in nearby dwarf galaxies. The color-magnitude …

Old-aged primary distance indicators

RL Beaton, G Bono, VF Braga, M Dall'Ora… - Space Science …, 2018 - Springer
Old-aged stellar distance indicators are present in all Galactic structures (halo, bulge, disk)
and in galaxies of all Hubble types and, thus, are immensely powerful tools for …

Absolute-magnitude distributions of supernovae

D Richardson, RL Jenkins III, J Wright… - The Astronomical …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
The absolute-magnitude distributions of seven supernova (SN) types are presented. The
data used here were primarily taken from the Asiago Supernova Catalogue, but were …

The influence of chemical composition on the properties of Cepheid stars-II. The iron content

M Romaniello, F Primas, M Mottini, S Pedicelli… - Astronomy & …, 2008 - aanda.org
Context. The Cepheid period-luminosity (PL) relation is unquestionably one of the most
powerful tools at our disposal for determining the extragalactic distance scale. While …

Insights into the Cepheid distance scale

G Bono, F Caputo, M Marconi… - The Astrophysical …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a detailed investigation of the Cepheid distance scale by using both theory and
observations. Through the use of pulsation models for fundamental mode Cepheids, we …

The Carnegie-Chicago Hubble Program. II. The Distance to IC 1613: The Tip of the Red Giant Branch and RR Lyrae Period–luminosity Relations

D Hatt, RL Beaton, WL Freedman… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
IC 1613 is an isolated dwarf galaxy within the Local Group. Low foreground and internal
extinction, low metallicity, and low crowding make it an invaluable testbed for the calibration …

The Araucaria project: the distance to the Sculptor dwarf spheroidal galaxy from infrared photometry of RR Lyrae stars

G Pietrzyński, W Gieren, O Szewczyk… - The Astronomical …, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
We have obtained single-phase near-infrared magnitudes in the J and K bands for a sample
of 78 RR Lyrae stars in the Sculptor dSph galaxy. Applying different theoretical and …

VLT Spectroscopy of blue supergiants in IC 1613

F Bresolin, MA Urbaneja, W Gieren… - The Astrophysical …, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
We present multiobject spectroscopy of young, massive stars in the Local Group galaxy IC
1613. We provide the spectral classification and a detailed spectral catalog for 54 OBA stars …

No breakdown of the radiatively driven wind theory in low-metallicity environments

JC Bouret, T Lanz, DJ Hillier, F Martins… - Monthly Notices of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
We present a spectroscopic analysis of Hubble Space Telescope/Cosmic Origins
Spectrograph observations of three massive stars in the low metallicity dwarf galaxies IC …

Large Magellanic Cloud Near-infrared Synoptic Survey. II. The Wesenheit Relations and Their Application to the Distance Scale

A Bhardwaj, SM Kanbur, LM Macri… - The Astronomical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We present new near-infrared (NIR) Cepheid period–Wesenheit (P–W) relations in the LMC
using time-series observations from the Large Magellanic Cloud NIR Synoptic Survey. We …