Toward a renewed Galactic Cepheid distance scale from Gaia and optical interferometry

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Through an innovative combination of multiple observing techniques and modeling, we are assembling a comprehensive understanding of the pulsation and close environment of Cepheids. We developed the SPIPS modeling tool that combines all observables (radial velocimetry, photometry, angular diameters from interferometry) to derive the relevant physical parameters of the star (effective temperature, infrared excess, reddening, ⋯) and the ratio of the distance and the projection factor d/p. We present the application of SPIPS to the long-period Cepheid RS Pup, for which we derive p = 1.25±0.06. The addition of this massive Cepheid consolidates the existing sample of p-factor measurements towards long-period pulsators. This allows us to conclude that p is constant or mildly variable around p = 1.29±0.04 (±3%) as a function of the pulsation period. The forthcoming Gaia DR2 will provide a considerable improvement in quantity and accuracy of the trigonometric parallaxes of Cepheids. From this sample, the SPIPS modeling tool will enable a robust calibration of the Cepheid distance scale.

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Kervella, P., Mérand, A., Gallenne, A., Trahin, B., Nardetto, N., Anderson, R. I., … Pietrzyński, G. (2017). Toward a renewed Galactic Cepheid distance scale from Gaia and optical interferometry. In EPJ Web of Conferences (Vol. 152). EDP Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201715207002

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