M. Marengo, M. Karovska, D. Sasselov, C. Papaliolios, J. T. Armstrong, T. E. Nordgren
Published 2002-04-09Version 1
The VLTI is the ideal instrument for measuring the distances of nearby Cepheids with the Baade-Wesselink method, allowing an accurate recalibration of the Cepheid Period-Luminosity relation. The high accuracy required by such measurement, however, can only be reached taking into account the effects of limb darkening, and its dependence on the Cepheid pulsations. We present here our new method to compute phase- and wavelength-dependent limb darkening profiles, based on hydrodynamic simulation of Classical Cepheid atmospheres.
Comments: 3 pages, 2 postscript figures, uses eas.cls LaTeX class file, to appear in the proc. Eurowinter School "Observing with the VLTI", Feb 3-8 2002, Les Houches (France)
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