J/AcA/48/113    OGLE RR Lyrae VI photometry              (Udalski, 1998)

The Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment. The distance scale: Galactic Bulge - LMC - SMC. Udalski A. <Acta Astron., 48, 113 (1998)> =1998AcA....48..113U 1998AcA....48..113U
ADC_Keywords: Stars, variable ; Photometry, VRI Keywords: Magellanic Clouds - Galaxy: center - Galaxies: distances and redshifts Abstract: We analyze the mean luminosity of three samples of field RRab Lyr stars observed in the course of the OGLE microlensing experiment: 73 stars from the Galactic bulge and 110 and 128 stars from selected fields in the LMC and SMC, respectively. The fields are the same as in the recent distance determination to the Magellanic Clouds with the red clump stars method by Udalski et al. (1998AcA....48....1U 1998AcA....48....1U). We determine the relative distance scale Galactic Bulge: 0.194±0.010; LMC: 1.00 ; SMC: 1.30±0.08. We calibrate our RR Lyr distance scale with the recent calibration of Gould and Popowski (1998ApJ...508..844G 1998ApJ...508..844G) based on statistical parallaxes. We obtain the following distance moduli to the Galactic bulge, LMC and SMC: m-M=14.5±0.15, m-M=18.09±0.16 and m-M=18.66±0.16mag. File Summary: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FileName Lrecl Records Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ReadMe 80 . This file table1.dat 74 128 RR Lyrae in the SMC field table2.dat 76 110 RR Lyrae in the LMC field table3.dat 42 73 RR Lyrae in the Baade's window -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- See also: I/244 : OGLE General Catalog of Stars. I. (Szymanski+ 1996) II/213 : OGLE Galactic Bulge periodic variables (Udalski+ 1996) J/A+AS/112/407 : OGLE variables in Sculptor dwarf galaxy (Kaluzny+, 1995) J/A+AS/125/343 : OGLE RR Lyr stars in omega Cen (Kaluzny+ 1997) J/AcA/46/389 : OGLE miscellaneous variable stars (Olech 1996) J/AcA/48/147 : OGLE SMC BVI photometry (Udalski+ 1998) J/AcA/48/175 : OGLE SMC clusters (Pietrzynski+ 1998) I/221 : The Magellanic Catalogue of Stars - MACS (Tucholke+ 1996) Byte-by-byte Description of file: table1.dat, table2.dat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1- 8 A8 --- SC Star cluster designation (SMC-SCNN or LMC-SCNN) 10- 15 I6 --- Seq Sequential number (1) 17- 18 I2 h RAh Right ascension (J2000) 20- 21 I2 min RAm Right ascension (J2000) 23- 27 F5.2 s RAs Right ascension (J2000) 29 A1 --- DE- Declination sign (J2000) 30- 31 I2 deg DEd Declination (J2000) 33- 34 I2 arcmin DEm Declination (J2000) 36- 39 F4.1 arcsec DEs Declination (J2000) 41- 47 F7.5 d Per Period 49- 61 F13.5 d HJD Heliocentric Julian date T0 63- 68 F6.3 mag <I0mag> Average deredenned I magnitude 70- 74 F5.3 mag <(V-I)0> ? Average deredenned V-I colour index -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note (1): In simbad, OGLE SMC-SCNN NNNNNN or OGLE LMC-SCNN NNNNNN -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Byte-by-byte Description of file: table3.dat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1- 7 A7 --- Star Star designation BWN-VNN (OGLE BWN VNN in simbad) 9- 15 F7.5 d Per Period 17- 29 F13.5 d HJD Heliocentric Julian date T0 31- 36 F6.3 mag <I0mag> Average deredenned I magnitude 38- 42 F5.3 mag <(V-I)0> Average deredenned V-I colour index -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- History: Prepared via OCR at CDS.
(End) Patricia Bauer [CDS] 26-May-1999
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