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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 832, 期 2, 页码 -出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.3847/0004-637X/832/2/176
关键词
Magellanic Clouds; stars: distances; stars: oscillations; stars: variables: Cepheids
资金
- The Milky Way System of the German Research Foundation (DFG) [Sonderforschungsbereich SFB 881]
- National Science Centre, Poland [MAESTRO 2014/14/A/ST9/00121]
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science [L15518]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [26287028] Funding Source: KAKEN
We present a detailed investigation of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) disk using classical Cepheids. Our analysis is based on optical (I,. V; OGLE-IV), near-infrared (NIR: J, H, K-S) and mid-infrared (MIR: w1; WISE) mean magnitudes. By adopting new templates to estimate the NIR mean magnitudes from single-epoch measurements, we build the currently most accurate, largest, and homogeneous multi-band data set of LMC Cepheids. We determine Cepheid individual distances using optical and NIR Period-Wesenheit relations (PWRs), to measure the geometry of the LMC disk and its viewing angles. Cepheid distances based on optical PWRs are precise at 3%, but accurate to 7%, while the ones based on NIR PWRs are more accurate (to 3%), but less precise (2%-15%), given the higher photometric error on the observed magnitudes. We found an inclination of i = 25.05 +/- 0.02 (stat.) +/- 0.55 (syst.) deg, and a position angle of the lines of nodes P. A. = 150.76 +/- 0.02 (stat.) +/- 0.07 (syst.) deg. These values agree well with estimates based either on young (Red Supergiants) or on intermediate-age (Asymptotic Giant Branch, Red Clump) stellar tracers, but they significantly differ from evaluations based on old (RR Lyrae) stellar tracers. This indicates that young/intermediate and old stellar populations have different spatial distributions. Finally, by using the reddening-law fitting approach, we provide a reddening map of the LMC disk, which is 10 times more accurate and 2 times larger than similar maps in the literature. We also found an LMC true distance modulus of mu(0,LMC) = 18.48 +/- 0.10 (stat. and syst.) mag, in excellent agreement with the currently most accurate measurement.
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