http://arxiv.org/abs/1402.4449
We use photometry from the recent AllWISE Data Release of the Wide-field In-frared Survey Explorer (WISE) of 129 calibration stars, combined with prior distances obtained from the established $M_V-$[Fe/H] relation and Hubble Space Telescope trigonometric parallax, to derive mid-infrared period–luminosity relations for RR Lyrae pulsating variable stars. We derive relations in the W1, W2, and W3 wavebands (3.4, 4.6, and 12 {\mu}m, respectively), and for each of the two main RR Lyrae sub-types (RRab and RRc). We report an error on the period–luminosity relation slope for RRab stars of 0.2. We also fit posterior distances for the calibration catalog and find a median fractional distance error of 0.8 per cent.
C. Klein, J. Richards, N. Butler, et. al.
Wed, 19 Feb 14
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