A distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud that is precise to one per cent.
Grzegorz Pietrzyński,Dariusz Graczyk,Dariusz Graczyk,Alexandre Gallenne,Alexandre Gallenne,Wolfgang Gieren,Ian B. Thompson,Bogumił Pilecki,Paulina Karczmarek,Marek Górski,K. Suchomska,Mónica Taormina,Bartłomiej Zgirski,P. Wielgórski,Z. Kołaczkowski,Piotr Konorski,Sandro Villanova,Nicolas Nardetto,Pierre Kervella,Fabio Bresolin,Rolf-Peter Kudritzki,Jesper Storm,Radosław Smolec,W. Narloch +23 more
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A new calibration of the surface brightness–colour relation of eclipsing binary stars gives a distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud that is precise to one per cent.Abstract:
In the era of precision cosmology, it is essential to empirically determine the Hubble constant with an accuracy of one per cent or better. At present, the uncertainty on this constant is dominated by the uncertainty in the calibration of the Cepheid period - luminosity relationship (also known as Leavitt Law). The Large Magellanic Cloud has traditionally served as the best galaxy with which to calibrate Cepheid period-luminosity relations, and as a result has become the best anchor point for the cosmic distance scale. Eclipsing binary systems composed of late-type stars offer the most precise and accurate way to measure the distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud. Currently the limit of the precision attainable with this technique is about two per cent, and is set by the precision of the existing calibrations of the surface brightness - colour relation. Here we report the calibration of the surface brightness-colour relation with a precision of 0.8 per cent. We use this calibration to determine the geometrical distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud that is precise to 1 per cent based on 20 eclipsing binary systems. The final distane is 49.59 +/- 0.09 (statistical) +/- 0.54 (systematic) kiloparsecs.read more
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