Gaia Data Release 1 - testing parallaxes with local Cepheids and RR Lyrae stars

• Verfasst von: Clementini, Gisella [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Bastian, Ulrich [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Biermann, Michael [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Grebel, Eva K. [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Els, Sebastian [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Mercier, Emmanuel [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Altmann, Martin [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Hauser, Marcus [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Jordan, Stefan [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Brüsemeister, Thomas [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Hofmann, Wilfried [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Lenhardt, Helmut [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Löffler, Wolfgang [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Mantelet, Grégory [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Sagristà Sellés, Antoni [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Stampa, Ulrike [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Bernstein, Hans-Heinrich [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Gaia Data Release 1 - testing parallaxes with local Cepheids and RR Lyrae stars
• Körperschaft: Gaia collaboration [VerfasserIn]
• Verf.angabe: Gaia Collaboration, G. Clementini, L. Eyer, V. Ripepi, M. Marconi, T. Muraveva, A. Garofalo, L.M. Sarro, M. Palmer, X. Luri, R. Molinaro, L. Rimoldini, L. Szabados, I. Musella, R.I. Anderson, T. Prusti, J.H.J. de Bruijne, A.G.A. Brown, A. Vallenari, C. Babusiaux, C.a.L. Bailer-Jones, U. Bastian, M. Biermann, D.W. Evans, F. Jansen, C. Jordi, S.A. Klioner, U. Lammers, L. Lindegren, F. Mignard, C. Panem, D. Pourbaix, S. Randich, P. Sartoretti, H.I. Siddiqui, C. Soubiran, V. Valette, F. van Leeuwen, N.A. Walton, C. Aerts, F. Arenou, M. Cropper, R. Drimmel, E. Høg, D. Katz, M.G. Lattanzi, W. O’Mullane, E.K. Grebel, A.D. Holland, C. Huc, X. Passot, M. Perryman, L. Bramante, C. Cacciari, J. Castañeda, L. Chaoul, N. Cheek, F. De Angeli, C. Fabricius, R. Guerra, J. Hernández, A. Jean-Antoine-Piccolo, E. Masana, R. Messineo, N. Mowlavi, K. Nienartowicz, D. Ordóñez-Blanco, P. Panuzzo, J. Portell, P.J. Richards, M. Riello, G.M. Seabroke, P. Tanga, F. Thévenin, J. Torra, S.G. Els, G. Gracia-Abril, G. Comoretto, M. Garcia-Reinaldos, T. Lock, E. Mercier, M. Altmann, R. Andrae, T.L. Astraatmadja, I. Bellas-Velidis, K. Benson, J. Berthier, R. Blomme, G. Busso, B. Carry, A. Cellino, S. Cowell, O. Creevey, J. Cuypers, M. Davidson, J. De Ridder, A. de Torres, L. Delchambre, A. Dell’Oro, C. Ducourant, Y. Frémat, M. García-Torres, E. Gosset, J.-L. Halbwachs, N.C. Hambly, D.L. Harrison, M. Hauser, D. Hestroffer, S.T. Hodgkin, H.E. Huckle, A. Hutton, G. Jasniewicz, S. Jordan, M. Kontizas, A.J. Korn, A.C. Lanzafame, M. Manteiga, A. Moitinho, K. Muinonen, J. Osinde, E. Pancino, T. Pauwels, J.-M. Petit, A. Recio-Blanco, A.C. Robin, C. Siopis, M. Smith, K.W. Smith, A. Sozzetti, W. Thuillot, W. van Reeven, Y. Viala, U. Abbas, A. Abreu Aramburu, S. Accart, J.J. Aguado, P.M. Allan, W. Allasia, G. Altavilla, M.A. Álvarez, J. Alves, A.H. Andrei, E. Anglada Varela, E. Antiche, T. Antoja, S. Antón, B. Arcay, N. Bach, S.G. Baker, L. Balaguer-Núñez, C. Barache, C. Barata, A. Barbier, F. Barblan, D. Barrado y Navascués, M. Barros, M.A. Barstow, U. Becciani, M. Bellazzini, A. Bello García, V. Belokurov, P. Bendjoya, A. Berihuete, L. Bianchi, O. Bienaymé, F. Billebaud, N. Blagorodnova, S. Blanco-Cuaresma, T. Boch, A. Bombrun, R. Borrachero, S. Bouquillon, G. Bourda, A. Bragaglia, M.A. Breddels, N. Brouillet, T. Brüsemeister, B. Bucciarelli, P. Burgess, R. Burgon, A. Burlacu, D. Busonero, R. Buzzi, E. Caffau, J. Cambras, H. Campbell, R. Cancelliere, T. Cantat-Gaudin, T. Carlucci, J.M. Carrasco, M. Castellani, P. Charlot, J. Charnas, A. Chiavassa, M. Clotet, G. Cocozza, R.S. Collins, G. Costigan, F. Crifo, N.J.G. Cross, M. Crosta, C. Crowley, C. Dafonte, Y. Damerdji, A. Dapergolas, P. David, M. David, P. De Cat, F. de Felice, P. de Laverny, F. De Luise, R. De March, R. de Souza, J. Debosscher, E. del Pozo, M. Delbo, A. Delgado, H.E. Delgado, P. Di Matteo, S. Diakite, E. Distefano, C. Dolding, S. Dos Anjos, P. Drazinos, J. Durán, Y. Dzigan, B. Edvardsson, H. Enke, N.W. Evans, G. Eynard Bontemps, C. Fabre, M. Fabrizio, A.J. Falcão, M. Farràs Casas, L. Federici, G. Fedorets, J. Fernández-Hernández, P. Fernique, A. Fienga, F. Figueras, F. Filippi, K. Findeisen, A. Fonti, M. Fouesneau, E. Fraile, M. Fraser, J. Fuchs, M. Gai, S. Galleti, L. Galluccio, D. Garabato, F. García-Sedano, N. Garralda, P. Gavras, J. Gerssen, R. Geyer, G. Gilmore, S. Girona, G. Giuffrida, M. Gomes, A. González-Marcos, J. González-Núñez, J.J. González-Vidal, M. Granvik, A. Guerrier, P. Guillout, J. Guiraud, A. Gúrpide, R. Gutiérrez-Sánchez, L.P. Guy, R. Haigron, D. Hatzidimitriou, M. Haywood, U. Heiter, A. Helmi, D. Hobbs, W. Hofmann, B. Holl, G. Holland, J.a.S. Hunt, A. Hypki, V. Icardi, M. Irwin, G. Jevardat de Fombelle, P. Jofré, P.G. Jonker, A. Jorissen, F. Julbe, A. Karampelas, A. Kochoska, R. Kohley, K. Kolenberg, E. Kontizas, S.E. Koposov, G. Kordopatis, P. Koubsky, A. Krone-Martins, M. Kudryashova, R.K. Bachchan, F. Lacoste-Seris, A.F. Lanza, J.-B. Lavigne, C. Le Poncin-Lafitte, Y. Lebreton, T. Lebzelter, S. Leccia, N. Leclerc, I. Lecoeur-Taibi, V. Lemaitre, H. Lenhardt, F. Leroux, S. Liao, E. Licata, H.E.P. Lindstrøm, T.A. Lister, E. Livanou, A. Lobel, W. Löffler, M. López, D. Lorenz, I. MacDonald, T. Magalhães Fernandes, S. Managau, R.G. Mann, G. Mantelet, O. Marchal, J.M. Marchant, S. Marinoni, P.M. Marrese, G. Marschalkó, D.J. Marshall, J.M. Martín-Fleitas, M. Martino, N. Mary, G. Matijevič, P.J. McMillan, S. Messina, D. Michalik, N.R. Millar, B.M.H. Miranda, D. Molina, M. Molinaro, L. Molnár, M. Moniez, P. Montegriffo, R. Mor, A. Mora, R. Morbidelli, T. Morel, S. Morgenthaler, D. Morris, A.F. Mulone, J. Narbonne, G. Nelemans, L. Nicastro, L. Noval, C. Ordénovic, J. Ordieres-Meré, P. Osborne, C. Pagani, I. Pagano, F. Pailler, H. Palacin, L. Palaversa, P. Parsons, M. Pecoraro, R. Pedrosa, H. Pentikäinen, B. Pichon, A.M. Piersimoni, F.-X. Pineau, E. Plachy, G. Plum, E. Poujoulet, A. Prša, L. Pulone, S. Ragaini, S. Rago, N. Rambaux, M. Ramos-Lerate, P. Ranalli, G. Rauw, A. Read, S. Regibo, C. Reylé, R.A. Ribeiro, A. Riva, G. Rixon, M. Roelens, M. Romero-Gómez, N. Rowell, F. Royer, L. Ruiz-Dern, G. Sadowski, T. Sagristà Sellés, J. Sahlmann, J. Salgado, E. Salguero, M. Sarasso, H. Savietto, M. Schultheis, E. Sciacca, M. Segol, J.C. Segovia, D. Segransan, I.-C. Shih, R. Smareglia, R. L. Smart, E. Solano, F. Solitro, R. Sordo, S. Soria Nieto, J. Souchay, A. Spagna, F. Spoto, U. Stampa, I.A. Steele, H. Steidelmüller, C.A. Stephenson, H. Stoev, F.F. Suess, M. Süveges, J. Surdej, E. Szegedi-Elek, D. Tapiador, F. Taris, G. Tauran, M.B. Taylor, R. Teixeira, D. Terrett, B. Tingley, S.C. Trager, C. Turon, A. Ulla, E. Utrilla, G. Valentini, A. van Elteren, E. Van Hemelryck, M. van Leeuwen, M. Varadi, A. Vecchiato, J. Veljanoski, T. Via, D. Vicente, S. Vogt, H. Voss, V. Votruba, S. Voutsinas, G. Walmsley, M. Weiler, K. Weingrill, T. Wevers, Ł Wyrzykowski, A. Yoldas, M. Žerjal, S. Zucker, C. Zurbach, T. Zwitter, A. Alecu, M. Allen, C. Allende Prieto, A. Amorim, G. Anglada-Escudé, V. Arsenijevic, S. Azaz, P. Balm, M. Beck, H.-H. Bernstein† [und weitere]
• E-Jahr: 2017
• Jahr: 14 September 2017
• Umfang: 29 S.
• Fussnoten: Gesehen am 14.08.2018
• Titel Quelle: Enthalten in: Astronomy and astrophysics
• Ort Quelle: Les Ulis : EDP Sciences, 1969
• Jahr Quelle: 2017
• Band/Heft Quelle: 605(2017) Artikel-Nummer A79, 29 Seiten
• ISSN Quelle: 1432-0746
• DOI: doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201629925
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• K10plus-PPN: 157854209X

Abstract

<i>Context. <i/>Parallaxes for 331 classical Cepheids, 31 Type II Cepheids, and 364 RR Lyrae stars in common between <i>Gaia <i/>and the Hipparcos and <i>Tycho<i/>-2 catalogues are published in <i>Gaia <i/>Data Release 1 (DR1) as part of the <i>Tycho<i/>-<i>Gaia <i/>Astrometric Solution (TGAS). <i>Aims. <i/>In order to test these first parallax measurements of the primary standard candles of the cosmological distance ladder, which involve astrometry collected by <i>Gaia <i/>during the initial 14 months of science operation, we compared them with literature estimates and derived new period-luminosity (<i>PL<i/>), period-Wesenheit (<i>PW<i/>) relations for classical and Type II Cepheids and infrared <i>PL<i/>, <i>PL<i/>-metallicity (<i>PLZ<i/>), and optical luminosity-metallicity (<i>M<i/><sub><i>V<i/><sub/>-[Fe/H]) relations for the RR Lyrae stars, with zero points based on TGAS.<i>Methods. <i/>Classical Cepheids were carefully selected in order to discard known or suspected binary systems. The final sample comprises 102 fundamental mode pulsators with periods ranging from 1.68 to 51.66 days (of which 33 with <i>σ<i/><sub><i>ϖ<i/><sub/>/<i>ϖ<i/>< 0.5). The Type II Cepheids include a total of 26 W Virginis and BL Herculis stars spanning the period range from 1.16 to 30.00 days (of which only 7 with <i>σ<i/><sub><i>ϖ<i/><sub/>/<i>ϖ<i/>< 0.5). The RR Lyrae stars include 200 sources with pulsation period ranging from 0.27 to 0.80 days (of which 112 with <i>σ<i/><sub><i>ϖ<i/><sub/>/<i>ϖ<i/>< 0.5). The new relations were computed using multi-band (<i>V,I,J,<i/><i>K<i/><sub>s<sub/>) photometry and spectroscopic metal abundances available in the literature, and by applying three alternative approaches: (i) linear least-squares fitting of the absolute magnitudes inferred from direct transformation of the TGAS parallaxes; (ii) adopting astrometry-based luminosities; and (iii) using a Bayesian fitting approach. The last two methods work in parallax space where parallaxes are used directly, thus maintaining symmetrical errors and allowing negative parallaxes to be used. The TGAS-based <i>PL,PW,PLZ<i/>, and <i>M<i/><sub><i>V<i/><sub/>− [Fe/H] relations are discussed by comparing the distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud provided by different types of pulsating stars and alternative fitting methods. <i>Results. <i/>Good agreement is found from direct comparison of the parallaxes of RR Lyrae stars for which both TGAS and HST measurements are available. Similarly, very good agreement is found between the TGAS values and the parallaxes inferred from the absolute magnitudes of Cepheids and RR Lyrae stars analysed with the Baade-Wesselink method. TGAS values also compare favourably with the parallaxes inferred by theoretical model fitting of the multi-band light curves for two of the three classical Cepheids and one RR Lyrae star, which were analysed with this technique in our samples. The <i>K<i/>-band <i>PL<i/> relations show the significant improvement of the TGAS parallaxes for Cepheids and RR Lyrae stars with respect to the Hipparcos measurements. This is particularly true for the RR Lyrae stars for which improvement in quality and statistics is impressive.<i>Conclusions. <i/>TGAS parallaxes bring a significant added value to the previous Hipparcos estimates. The relations presented in this paper represent the first <i>Gaia<i/>-calibrated relations and form a work-in-progress milestone report in the wait for <i>Gaia<i/>-only parallaxes of which a first solution will become available with <i>Gaia <i/>Data Release 2 (DR2) in 2018.