2005A&A...442..159B

Query : 2005A&A...442..159B

2005A&A...442..159B - Astronomy and Astrophysics, volume 442159-163 (2005/10-4)

The standard candle aspect of carbon stars.

BATTINELLI P. and DEMERS S.

Abstract (from CDS):

This paper represents the second part of our effort to summarise various aspects of our homogeneous survey of carbon stars in nearby galaxies. Here we investigate the relationships between the size of the C star populations and the luminosity of the parent galaxies. We also explore the constancy of <MI> for various metallicities and properties of the parent galaxies. We conclude that C stars are a viable standard candle for galaxies large enough to contain one hundred or more C stars. The application of narrow-band filters limits, however, the use of C stars as standard candles to no more than ∼2Mpc with currently available ground-based telescopes. Near-IR photometry from space observations can significantly push the limit of detectability of C stars thus making them an interesting alternative to the TRGB method.

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Journal keyword(s): stars: carbon - stars: AGB and post-AGB - cosmology: distance scale

Simbad objects: 27

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Number of rows : 27
N Identifier Otype ICRS (J2000)
RA 		ICRS (J2000)
DEC 		Mag U Mag B Mag V Mag R Mag I Sp type #ref
1850 - 2026 		#notes
1 MCG-03-01-015 G 00 01 57.9 -15 27 50   11.50 11.10 10.93   ~ 782 2
2 IC 10 rG 00 20 17.33520 +59 18 13.6480   13.6 9.5     ~ 1185 1
3 NGC 147 GiG 00 33 12.120 +48 30 31.46   12.0 9.5     ~ 720 1
4 NGC 185 Sy2 00 38 57.9400026024 +48 20 15.035874648   9.10 9.2     ~ 840 1
5 M 110 GiG 00 40 22.0572349992 +41 41 07.507220136   8.92 8.07     ~ 1370 1
6 M 31 AGN 00 42 44.330 +41 16 07.50 4.86 4.36 3.44     ~ 13622 1
7 NAME SMC G 00 52 38.0 -72 48 01   2.79 2.2     ~ 12317 1
8 NGC 300 GiG 00 54 53.4465638304 -37 41 03.168402396 8.83 8.69 8.13 7.46   ~ 1614 2
9 NAME Sculptor Dwarf Galaxy G 01 00 09.4 -33 42 32   9.79 8.6 8.81   ~ 1498 4
10 IC 1613 GiC 01 04 48.4071 +02 07 10.185   10.42 10.01 9.77   ~ 1316 2
11 NAME Andromeda II G 01 16 29.8 +33 25 09     11.7     ~ 402 0
12 M 33 GiG 01 33 50.8965749232 +30 39 36.630403128 6.17 6.27 5.72     ~ 6226 1
13 MCG-06-07-001 G 02 39 59.3 -34 26 57   9.02 7.4     ~ 1894 1
14 NAME Magellanic Clouds GrG 03 00 -71.0           ~ 7988 0
15 NAME LMC G 05 23 34.6 -69 45 22     0.4     ~ 19090 0
16 ESO 206-20A G 06 41 36.7 -50 57 58   22.14 11.0 19.47   ~ 1190 0
17 NGC 3109 AG? 10 03 06.877 -26 09 34.46 11.10 10.42 10.04 9.91   ~ 825 2
18 Z 64-73 G 10 08 28.12 +12 18 23.4   11.3 10.0     ~ 1284 1
19 Z 247-26 AG? 14 24 43.21 +44 31 41.8 14.24 13.54 13.17 13.07   ~ 217 0
20 Z 318-18 G 15 09 08.0 +67 13 21   13.60 10.6     ~ 1459 0
21 NAME Sgr dIG G 19 29 59.0 -17 40 41   15.5 13.6     ~ 323 1
22 NGC 6822 G 19 44 56.199 -14 47 51.29   18 8.1     ~ 1661 0
23 MCG-02-53-003 G 20 46 51.7 -12 50 54 15.75 15.18 14.83 14.46   ~ 470 1
24 NAME Pisces II G 22 58 31.0 +05 57 09     16.3     ~ 283 0
25 NAME Andromeda VII GiG 23 26 31.0 +50 40 33   13.6 11.8     ~ 222 1
26 Z 431-72 G 23 28 35.2 +14 44 35 13.85 13.16 12.52     ~ 499 1
27 NAME Local Group GrG ~ ~           ~ 9325 0

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