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MacKenty, John W.
Melis, Carl
Tucker, Brad E.
Upadhya, Gautam
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Riess, Adam G.
Anderson, Jay
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Bowers, J. Bradley
Clubb, Kelsey I.
Cukierman, Aviv R.
Filippenko, Alexei V.
Graham, Melissa L.
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Graham, Melissa L.
MacKenty, John W.
Melis, Carl
Tucker, Brad E.
Upadhya, Gautam
The Astrophysical Journal
PARALLAX OF GALACTIC CEPHEIDS FROM SPATIALLY SCANNING THE WIDE FIELD CAMERA 3 ON THE HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE: THE CASE OF SS CANIS MAJORIS
Space and Planetary Science
Astronomy and Astrophysics
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spelling Casertano, Stefano Riess, Adam G. Anderson, Jay Anderson, Richard I. Bowers, J. Bradley Clubb, Kelsey I. Cukierman, Aviv R. Filippenko, Alexei V. Graham, Melissa L. MacKenty, John W. Melis, Carl Tucker, Brad E. Upadhya, Gautam 0004-637X 1538-4357 American Astronomical Society Space and Planetary Science Astronomy and Astrophysics http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/0004-637x/825/1/11 <jats:title>ABSTRACT</jats:title> <jats:p>We present a high-precision measurement of the parallax for the 12-day Cepheid SS Canis Majoris, obtained via spatial scanning with the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) on the <jats:italic>Hubble Space Telescope (HST)</jats:italic>. Spatial scanning enables astrometric measurements with a precision of 20–40 <jats:italic>μ</jats:italic>as, an order of magnitude better than pointed observations. SS CMa is the second Cepheid targeted for parallax measurement with <jats:italic>HST</jats:italic> and is the first of a sample of 18 long-period (≳10 days) Cepheids selected in order to improve the calibration of their period–luminosity relation and eventually permit a determination of the Hubble constant <jats:italic>H</jats:italic> <jats:sub>0</jats:sub> to better than 2%. The parallax of SS CMa is found to be 348 ± 38 <jats:italic>μ</jats:italic>as, corresponding to a distance of 2.9 ± 0.3 kpc. We also present a refinement of the static geometric distortion of WFC3 obtained using spatial scanning observations of calibration fields, with a typical magnitude ≲0.01 pixels on scales of 100 pixels.</jats:p> PARALLAX OF GALACTIC CEPHEIDS FROM SPATIALLY SCANNING THE WIDE FIELD CAMERA 3 ON THE HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE: THE CASE OF SS CANIS MAJORIS The Astrophysical Journal
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title_unstemmed PARALLAX OF GALACTIC CEPHEIDS FROM SPATIALLY SCANNING THE WIDE FIELD CAMERA 3 ON THE HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE: THE CASE OF SS CANIS MAJORIS
title_full PARALLAX OF GALACTIC CEPHEIDS FROM SPATIALLY SCANNING THE WIDE FIELD CAMERA 3 ON THE HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE: THE CASE OF SS CANIS MAJORIS
title_fullStr PARALLAX OF GALACTIC CEPHEIDS FROM SPATIALLY SCANNING THE WIDE FIELD CAMERA 3 ON THE HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE: THE CASE OF SS CANIS MAJORIS
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spelling Casertano, Stefano Riess, Adam G. Anderson, Jay Anderson, Richard I. Bowers, J. Bradley Clubb, Kelsey I. Cukierman, Aviv R. Filippenko, Alexei V. Graham, Melissa L. MacKenty, John W. Melis, Carl Tucker, Brad E. Upadhya, Gautam 0004-637X 1538-4357 American Astronomical Society Space and Planetary Science Astronomy and Astrophysics http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/0004-637x/825/1/11 <jats:title>ABSTRACT</jats:title> <jats:p>We present a high-precision measurement of the parallax for the 12-day Cepheid SS Canis Majoris, obtained via spatial scanning with the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) on the <jats:italic>Hubble Space Telescope (HST)</jats:italic>. Spatial scanning enables astrometric measurements with a precision of 20–40 <jats:italic>μ</jats:italic>as, an order of magnitude better than pointed observations. SS CMa is the second Cepheid targeted for parallax measurement with <jats:italic>HST</jats:italic> and is the first of a sample of 18 long-period (≳10 days) Cepheids selected in order to improve the calibration of their period–luminosity relation and eventually permit a determination of the Hubble constant <jats:italic>H</jats:italic> <jats:sub>0</jats:sub> to better than 2%. The parallax of SS CMa is found to be 348 ± 38 <jats:italic>μ</jats:italic>as, corresponding to a distance of 2.9 ± 0.3 kpc. We also present a refinement of the static geometric distortion of WFC3 obtained using spatial scanning observations of calibration fields, with a typical magnitude ≲0.01 pixels on scales of 100 pixels.</jats:p> PARALLAX OF GALACTIC CEPHEIDS FROM SPATIALLY SCANNING THE WIDE FIELD CAMERA 3 ON THE HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE: THE CASE OF SS CANIS MAJORIS The Astrophysical Journal
spellingShingle Casertano, Stefano, Riess, Adam G., Anderson, Jay, Anderson, Richard I., Bowers, J. Bradley, Clubb, Kelsey I., Cukierman, Aviv R., Filippenko, Alexei V., Graham, Melissa L., MacKenty, John W., Melis, Carl, Tucker, Brad E., Upadhya, Gautam, The Astrophysical Journal, PARALLAX OF GALACTIC CEPHEIDS FROM SPATIALLY SCANNING THE WIDE FIELD CAMERA 3 ON THE HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE: THE CASE OF SS CANIS MAJORIS, Space and Planetary Science, Astronomy and Astrophysics
title PARALLAX OF GALACTIC CEPHEIDS FROM SPATIALLY SCANNING THE WIDE FIELD CAMERA 3 ON THE HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE: THE CASE OF SS CANIS MAJORIS
title_full PARALLAX OF GALACTIC CEPHEIDS FROM SPATIALLY SCANNING THE WIDE FIELD CAMERA 3 ON THE HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE: THE CASE OF SS CANIS MAJORIS
title_fullStr PARALLAX OF GALACTIC CEPHEIDS FROM SPATIALLY SCANNING THE WIDE FIELD CAMERA 3 ON THE HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE: THE CASE OF SS CANIS MAJORIS
title_full_unstemmed PARALLAX OF GALACTIC CEPHEIDS FROM SPATIALLY SCANNING THE WIDE FIELD CAMERA 3 ON THE HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE: THE CASE OF SS CANIS MAJORIS
title_short PARALLAX OF GALACTIC CEPHEIDS FROM SPATIALLY SCANNING THE WIDE FIELD CAMERA 3 ON THE HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE: THE CASE OF SS CANIS MAJORIS
title_sort parallax of galactic cepheids from spatially scanning the wide field camera 3 on the hubble space telescope: the case of ss canis majoris
title_unstemmed PARALLAX OF GALACTIC CEPHEIDS FROM SPATIALLY SCANNING THE WIDE FIELD CAMERA 3 ON THE HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE: THE CASE OF SS CANIS MAJORIS
topic Space and Planetary Science, Astronomy and Astrophysics
url http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/0004-637x/825/1/11