Large Magellanic Cloud Near-Infrared Synoptic Survey. V. Period-Luminosity Relations of Miras [SSA]

http://arxiv.org/abs/1708.04742


We study the near-infrared properties of 690 Mira candidates in the central region of the Large Magellanic Cloud, based on time-series observations at JHKs. We use densely-sampled I-band observations from the OGLE project to generate template light curves in the near infrared and derive robust mean magnitudes at those wavelengths. We obtain near-infrared Period-Luminosity relations for Oxygen-rich Miras with a scatter as low as 0.12 mag at Ks. We study the Period-Luminosity-Color relations and the color excesses of Carbon-rich Miras, which show evidence for a substantially different reddening law.

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W. Yuan, L. Macri, S. He, et. al.
Thu, 17 Aug 17
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Comments: Accepted for publication in The Astronomical Journal