期刊
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 684, 期 1, 页码 118-135出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1086/590334
关键词
galaxies : abundances; galaxies : distances and redshifts; galaxies : individual (WLM); stars : early-type; supergiants
资金
- Chilean Center for Astrophysics [FONDAP 15010003]
- BASAL Centro de Astrofisica y Tecnologias Afines (CATA)
- Polish grant [N203 002 31/046]
- FOCUS subsidy of the Foundation for Polish Science (FNP)
The quantitative analysis of low-resolution spectra of A and B supergiants is used to determine a distance modulus of 24.99 +/- 0.10 mag (995 +/- 46 kpc) to the Local Group galaxy WLM. The analysis yields stellar effective temperatures and gravities, which provide a distance through the flux-weighted gravity-luminosity relationship (FGLR). Our distance is 0.07 mag larger than the most recent results based on Cepheids and the tip of the red giant branch. This difference is within the 1 sigma overlap of the typical uncertainties quoted in these photometric investigations. In addition, non-LTE spectral synthesis of the rich metal-line spectra (mostly iron, chromium, and titanium) of the A supergiants is carried out, which allows the determination of stellar metallicities. An average metallicity of -0.87 +/- 0.06 dex with respect to solar metallicity is found.
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