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A golden sample of astrophysical parameters

Richard Irving Anderson

Context. Gaia Data Release 3 (DR3) provides a wealth of new data products for the astronomical community to exploit, including astrophysical parameters for half a billion stars. In this work, we demonstrate the high quality of these data products and illus ...

EDP SCIENCES S A2023

Reeling in the Whirlpool galaxy: Distance to M 51 clarified through Cepheids and the type IIP supernova 2005cs

Richard Irving Anderson

Context. The distance to the Whirlpool galaxy, M 51, is still debated, even though the galaxy has been studied in great detail. Current estimates range from 6.02 to 9.09 Mpc, and different methods yield discrepant results. No Cepheid distance has been publ ...

2023

The surface brightness-colour relations based on eclipsing binary stars and calibrated with EDR3

Richard Irving Anderson

Aims. The surface brightness-colour relation (SBCR) is a basic tool for establishing precise and accurate distances within the Local Group. Detached eclipsing binary stars with accurately determined radii and trigonometric parallaxes allow calibration of t ...

2021

Investigating Gaia EDR3 parallax systematics using asteroseismology of Cool Giant Stars observed by Kepler, K2, and TESS

Richard Irving Anderson, Saniya Khan

Gaia EDR3 has provided unprecedented data that has generated a great deal of interest in the astrophysical community, even though systematics affect the reported parallaxes at the level of similar to 10 mu as. Independent distance measurements are availabl ...

2023

Cepheids with Giant Companions. I. Revealing a Numerous Population of Double-lined Binary Cepheids* (dagger)

Richard Irving Anderson

Masses of classical Cepheids of 3-11 M are predicted by theory but those measured clump between 3.6-5 M. As a result, their mass-luminosity relation is poorly constrained, impeding our understanding of basic stellar physics and the Leavitt Law. All Cepheid ...

2021

Discovery of a dormant 33 solar-mass black hole in pre-release Gaia astrometry

Richard Irving Anderson, Mauricio Cruz Reyes

Context. Gravitational waves from black-hole (BH) merging events have revealed a population of extra-galactic BHs residing in short-period binaries with masses that are higher than expected based on most stellar evolution models-And also higher than known ...

2024

The Components of Cepheid Systems: The FN Vel System

Richard Irving Anderson, Giordano Viviani

Cepheid masses continue to be important tests of evolutionary tracks for intermediate-mass stars as well as important predictors of their future fate. For systems where the secondary is a B star, Hubble Space Telescope ultraviolet spectra have been obtaine ...

2024

JWST Validates HST Distance Measurements: Selection of Supernova Subsample Explains Differences in JWST Estimates of Local H0

Richard Irving Anderson

We cross-check the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Cepheid/Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) distance ladder, which yields the most precise local H0, against early James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) subsamples (∼1/4 of the HST sample) from SH0ES and CCHP, calibrated o ...

2024

Tip of the Red Giant Branch Distances with JWST: An Absolute Calibration in NGC 4258 and First Applications to Type Ia Supernova Hosts

Richard Irving Anderson

The tip of the red giant branch (TRGB) allows for the measurement of precise and accurate distances to nearby galaxies based on the brightest ascent of low-mass red giant branch stars before they undergo the helium flash. With the advent of JWST, there is ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2024

Exploring the dynamical evolution of Cepheid multiplicity in star clusters and its implications for B-star multiplicity at birth

Richard Irving Anderson

Context. Classical Cepheid variable stars provide a unique probe of binary evolution in intermediate-mass stars over the course of several tens to hundreds of Myr. In addition, understanding binary evolution with the inclusion of cluster dynamics is desira ...

2024

The Orbit and Dynamical Mass of Polaris: Observations with the CHARA Array

Richard Irving Anderson, Giordano Viviani

The 30 yr orbit of the Cepheid Polaris has been followed with observations by the Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy (CHARA) Array from 2016 through 2021. An additional measurement has been made with speckle interferometry at the Apache Point Obs ...

2024

Gaia Focused Product Release: A catalogue of sources around quasars to search for strongly lensed quasars

Stephan Morgenthaler, Richard Irving Anderson

All rights reserved.Context. Strongly lensed quasars are fundamental sources for cosmology. The Gaia space mission covers the entire sky with the unprecedented resolution of 0.18âÃ Â€ ³ in the optical, making it an ideal instrument to search for gravitatio ...

2024

Crowded No More: The Accuracy of the Hubble Constant Tested with High-resolution Observations of Cepheids by JWST

Richard Irving Anderson

High-resolution James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) observations can test confusion-limited Hubble Space Telescope (HST) observations for a photometric bias that could affect extragalactic Cepheids and the determination of the Hubble constant. We present JWS ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2023

The Orbit and Mass of the Cepheid AW Per

Richard Irving Anderson

The Cepheid AW Per is a component in a multiple system with a long-period orbit. The radial velocities of Griffin cover the 38 yr orbit well. An extensive program of interferometry with the Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy array is reported her ...

2024

Relation between the geometric shape and rotation of Galactic globular clusters

Richard Irving Anderson, Mauricio Cruz Reyes

We homogeneously measured the elliptical shapes of 163 globular clusters (GCs) using the on-sky distribution of their cluster members and the third data release of the ESA mission Gaia (DR3). The astrometry enables the differentiation of stars within clust ...

2024

The eta Aquilae System: Radial Velocities and Astrometry in Search of eta Aql B

Richard Irving Anderson

The classical Cepheid eta Aql was not included in past Leavitt Law work because of a presumed complicating orbit due to a known B9.8V companion. To determine the orbit of eta Aql B, we analyze a significant number of radial velocity (RV) measurements from ...

2022

Mapping the asymmetric disc of the Milky Way

Richard Irving Anderson

Context. With the most recent Gaia data release, the number of sources with complete 6D phase space information (position and velocity) has increased to well over 33 million stars, while stellar astrophysical parameters are provided for more than 470 milli ...

EDP SCIENCES S A2023

The iron and oxygen content of LMC Classical Cepheids and its implications for the extragalactic distance scale and Hubble constant Equivalent width analysis with Kurucz stellar atmosphere models (vol 658, A29, 2022)

Richard Irving Anderson

2022

Gaia Early Data Release 3 The celestial reference frame (Gaia-CRF3)

Richard Irving Anderson

Context. Gaia-CRF3 is the celestial reference frame for positions and proper motions in the third release of data from the Gaia mission, Gaia DR3 (and for the early third release, Gaia EDR3, which contains identical astrometric results). The reference fram ...

EDP SCIENCES S A2022

Cluster Cepheids with High Precision Gaia Parallaxes, Low Zero-point Uncertainties, and Hubble Space Telescope Photometry

Richard Irving Anderson, Mauricio Cruz Reyes

We present Hubble Space Telescope (HST) photometry of 17 Cepheids in open clusters and their cluster mean parallaxes from Gaia EDR3. These parallaxes are more precise than those from individual Cepheids (G < 8 mag) previously used to measure the Hubble con ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022