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On the Robustness of the Cepheids' PL Relation

Alfred Gautschy
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The Cepheids' P-L relation got itself talked about again in the recent past due to claims of observed metallicity dependences of at least its zero point. The divergences of the observational results obtained by the different authors are large, however. Therefore, to date the situation concerning the magnitude and the reliability of the effect is rather uncertain on the observational side. Along the theoretical avenue, some progress towards more realistic and in particular more consistent Cepheid modeling has been achieved recently. Upper limits on the reaction of the P-L relation on assumptions in evolution computations, pulsation stability analyses, and mappings onto photometric passbands can be estimated now quite reliably. This informal review discusses some of the progress (relying mostly on an extensive comparison by Sandage et al. 1998) and it emphasizes modeling problems which still have to be overcome to finalize the theoretical foundation of the Cepheids' P-L relation.

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Alfred Gautschy. 1999-01-04. On the Robustness of the Cepheids' PL Relation. https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9901021

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