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Metallicity effects on distances based on double-mode Cepheids

Geza Kovacs

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/0511524

Abstract

We test the effect of systematic metallicity difference between the two types of double-mode Cepheids in the Magellanic Clouds. We show that lowering the metallicity for the short-periodic Cepheids leaves the distances at their canonical values and, at the same time, improves the agreement between the observed and model periods.

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