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Distance to M31 with the [ITAL]Hubble Space Telescope[/ITAL] and [ITAL]Hipparcos[/ITAL] Red Clump Stars
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Following the approach by Paczyński & Stanek, we compare the red clump stars with parallaxes known to better than 10% in the Hipparcos catalog with the red clump stars observed in three fields in M31 using the Hubble Space Telescope . There are ~600 and ~6300 such stars in the two data sets, respectively. The local red clump luminosity function is well represented by a Gaussian with the peak at M I,m =-0.23 and the dispersion σ RC ≈ 0.2 mag. This allows a single-step determination of the distance modulus to M31, μ 0, M31 =24.471 ± 0.035 ± 0.045 mag (statistical plus systematic error), and the corresponding distance, R M31 =784 ± 13 ± 17 kpc. The number of red clump stars is large enough that the formal statistical error in the distance is only ≲2%. We also correct the treatment of the local interstellar extinction by Paczyński & Stanek, and we obtain the Galactocentric distance modulus, μ 0, GC =14.57 ± 0.04 ± 0.04 mag (statistical plus systematic error), and the corresponding Galactocentric distance, R 0 =8.2 ± 0.15 ± 0.15 kpc.
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- Stanek, K. Z., & Garnavich, P. M.
- Venue
- The Astrophysical Journal
- Publisher
- American Astronomical Society
- Published
- 1998-08-20
- Volume
- 503
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- L131-L134
- ISSN
- 0004-637X (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1580006248
- Cited by
- 349
- References
- 14
- FWCI
- 14.28
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
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