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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 553, Issue 2, Pages 562-574Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1086/320969
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Cepheids; cosmological parameters; distance scale; galaxies : individual (NGC 4258)
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In a previous paper we reported a Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Cepheid distance to the galaxy NGC 4258 obtained using the calibrations and methods then standard for the Key Project. Here we reevaluate the Cepheid distance using the recently revised Key Project procedures. These revisions alter the zero points and slopes of the Cepheid period-luminosity (P-L) relations derived at the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), the calibration of the HST WFPC2 camera, and the treatment of metallicity differences. We also provide herein full information on the Cepheids described in the previous paper. Using the refined Key Project techniques and calibrations, we determine the distance modulus of NGC 4258 to be 29.47 +/- 0.09 (unique to this determination) +/-0.15 mag (systematic uncertainties in Key Project distances), corresponding to a metric distance of 7.8 +/- 0.3 +/- 0.5 Mpc and 1.2 sigma from the maser distance of 7.2 +/- 0.5 Mpc. Additionally, we place weak limits upon the distance to the LMC and upon the effect of metallicity in Cepheid distance determinations.
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