Near-infrared Mira Period-Luminosity Relations in M33 Academic Article

abstract

• 2018. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. We analyze sparsely sampled near-infrared (JHK s) light curves of a sample of 1781 Mira variable candidates in M33, originally discovered using I-band time-series observations. We extend our single-band semi-parametric Gaussian process modeling of Mira light curves to a multiband version and obtain improved period determinations. We use our previous results on near-infrared properties of candidate Miras in the LMC to classify the majority of the M33 sample into oxygen- or carbon-rich subsets. We derive period-luminosity relations for O-rich Miras and determine a distance modulus for M33 of 24.80 0.06 mag.

authors

• Macri, Lucas

published proceedings

• ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL

altmetric score

• 7.83

author list (cited authors)

• Yuan, W., Macri, L. M., Javadi, A., Lin, Z., & Huang, J. Z.

citation count

• 29

complete list of authors

• Yuan, Wenlong||Macri, Lucas M||Javadi, Atefeh||Lin, Zhenfeng||Huang, Jianhua Z

publication date

• September 2018

publisher

• American Astronomical Society  Publisher

published in

• Astronomical Journal  Journal

keywords

• Distance Scale
• Methods: Statistical
• Stars: Agb And Post-agb
• Stars: Variables: General

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.3847/1538-3881/aad330

start page

• 112

end page

• 112

volume

• 156

issue

• 3

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/aad330