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Mem. S.A.It. Vol. 77, 261

SAIt 2006c Memoriedella

Distances to six Cepheids in the LMC cluster NGC1866 from the near-IR surface-brightness

method

J. Storm

1

, W. Gieren

2

, P. Fouqu´e

3

, T.G. Barnes III

4

, and M. G´omez

2

1 Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam – An der Sternwarte 16, 14482 Potsdam, Germany e-mail: jstorm@aip.de

2 Universidad de Concepci´on, Concepci´on, Chile e-mail: wgieren@coma.cfm.udec.cl, e-mail: matias@astro-udec.cl

3 Observatoire Midi-Pyr´en´ees, Toulouse, France; e-mail: pfouque@ast.obs-mip.fr

4 The University of Texas at Austin, Texas, U.S.A. e-mail: tgb@astro.as.utexas.edu

Abstract. We derive individual distances to six Cepheids in the young populous star cluster NGC1866 in the Large Magellanic Cloud employing the near-IR surface brightness tech- nique. With six stars available at the exact same distance we can directly measure the in- trinsic uncertainty of the method. We find a standard deviation of 0.11 mag, two to three times larger than the error estimates and more in line with the estimates from Bayesian sta- tistical analysis by Barnes et al. (2005). Using all six distance estimates we determine an unweighted mean cluster distance of 18.30 ± 0.05. The observations indicate that NGC1866 is close to be at the same distance as the main body of the LMC. If we use the stronger dependence of the p-factor on the period as suggested by Gieren et al. (2005) we find a distance of 18.50 ± 0.05 (internal error) and the PL relations for Galactic and MC Cepheids are in very good agreement.

Key words.Cepheids – Magellanic Clouds – Stars: distances – Stars: fundamental param- eters

Fig. 1. Here we have over-plotted the dereddend mean K magnitudes for the NGC1866 Cepheids (full circles) on top of the mean K magnitudes for the LMC field Cepheids from Persson et al. (2004).

The excellent agreement suggests that NGC1866 is located close the LMC mean distance and that depth effects must be small if at all present. This is in agreement with the model of van der Marel and Cioni (2001) which suggests that the LMC disk at the location of NGC1866 closer than the LMC barycentre by 0.06mag.

1. Observations

Storm et al. (2005) have obtained radial ve- locity curves as well as K-band light curves for six Cepheids in the young populous LMC clus- ter NGC1866. Combining these data with the optical light curves from Gieren et al. (2000) we can apply the near-IR surface brightness method as calibrated by Fouqu´e and Gieren (1997) to determine the distance to the individ- ual stars.

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262 Storm et al.: Distances to Cepheids in NGC1866 Table 1. Individual distance moduli for the

NGC1866 Cepheids using the original and the new p-factor relations.

Star log P (m − M) σ

org new

HV12199 0.421 18.34 18.55 0.09 HV12203 0.470 18.48 18.68 0.09 HV12202 0.492 18.29 18.49 0.07 HV12197 0.497 18.17 18.36 0.06 HV12204 0.536 18.20 18.39 0.04 HV12198 0.547 18.31 18.50 0.03 Unweighted mean: 18.30 18.50 s.d. 0.11

Fig. 2. Here we have over-plotted the absolute magnitudes of galactic Cepheids (open circles) on the NGC1866 Cepheids (filled circles). The results are based on the Fouqu´e and Gieren (1997) cali- bration presented in Storm et al. (2004) using a p-factor which is only weakly dependent on pe- riod [p = 1.39 − 0.03 log(P)]. Note the excellent agreement between LMC and Milky Way stars. The dashed line represents the observed LMC relation- ship from Persson et al. (2004) exactly as repre- sented in Fig.1 for an assumed distance modulus of 18.30 and illustrates the apparent difference in slope between the LMC and galactic PL relations.

2. Discussion

Gieren et al. (2005) analyzed these stars to- gether with additional LMC Cepheids with longer periods using the near-IR surface brightness technique. They found that the long period stars also follow the observed relations in both of the above diagrams, but not the dashed line in Fig.2. They also found the un- physical result that the distances for these long period stars were significantly longer than for the short period NGC1866 stars. By introduc- ing a stronger period dependence of the p- factor which converts radial velocity into pul- sations velocity [p = 1.58 − 0.15 log(P)] they could force the LMC stars to be at the same dis- tance independent of period. As a consequence the slope for the PL relation in Fig.2 would be- come shallower leading to an excellent agree- ment with the Persson et al. (2004) relation- ship (dashed line). For the NGC1866 Cepheids this implies distance estimates which are about 0.2 mag longer than with the original p-factor relation.

References

Barnes, T.G., Storm, J., Jefferys, W.H., et al., 2005, ApJ, in press

Fouqu´e, P., and Gieren, W.P., 1997, A&A, 320, 799

Gieren, W.P., G´omez, M., Storm, J., et al., 2000, ApJS, 129, 111

Gieren, W.P., Storm, J., Barnes, T.G., et al., 2005, ApJ, 627, 224

Persson, S.E., Madore, B.F., et al., 2004, AJ, 128, 2239

Storm, J., Carney, B.W., Gieren, W.P., et al, 2004, A&A, 415, 531

Storm, J., Gieren, W.P., Fouqu´e, P., et al., 2005, A&A, 440, 487

van der Marel, R.P., and Cioni, M.-R.L., 2001, AJ, 122, 1807

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