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Local Group Galaxies in the Infrared

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2011

John Menzies
John Menzies*
Affiliation:
South African Astronomical Observatory, PO Box 9, Observatory 7935, South Africa email: jwm@saao.ac.za
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Abstract

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A survey has been conducted of Local Group galaxies with the Japanese/South African Infrared Survey Facility at SAAO, Sutherland. A number of Mira variables have been discovered in four dwarf spheroidals, which provides an opportunity to test the usefulness of these stars as distance indicators in galaxies beyond the Magellanic Clouds. These Miras are found to follow the same period-luminosity relation as in the LMC, provided bolometric magnitudes are used.

Keywords

galaxies: Local Groupdistances stars: variables: Mira
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 6 , Symposium S277: Tracing the Ancestry of Galaxies (on the land of our ancestors) , December 2010 , pp. 34 - 36
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2011

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