Characteristics of the Galaxy according to Cepheids

@article{Majaess2009CharacteristicsOT,  title={Characteristics of the Galaxy according to Cepheids},  author={D. Majaess and David Gerald Turner and David Lane},  journal={Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society},  year={2009},  volume={398},  pages={263-270},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:14316644}}
ABSTRACT Classical and Type II Cepheids are used to reinvestigate specific properties of theGalaxy.A new TypeII reddening-freeCepheid distance parameterizationis formulatedfrom LMC Cepheids (OGLE), with uncertainties typically no larger than 5–15%. Adistance to the Galactic centre of R 0 = 7.8 ± 0.6 kpc is derived from the mediandistance to Type II Cepheids in the bulge (OGLE), R 0 = 7.7±0.7 kpc from a distanceto the near side of the bulge combined with an estimated bulge radius of 1.3 ± 0.3kpc… 

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