The Cepheid Variable Population in the Local Group Dwarf Irregular Galaxy Pegasus

Meschin, I.; Gallart, C.; Cassisi, S.; Aparicio, A.; Rosenberg, A.
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Pathways Through an Eclectic Universe ASP Conference Series, Vol. 390, proceedings of the conference held 23-27 April, 2007 at Santiago del Teide, Tenerife, Spain. Edited by J. H. Knapen, T. J. Mahoney, and A. Vazdekis San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2008., p.306

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2008
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We present the result of a search for Cepheids in the Local Group dwarf irregular galaxy Pegasus. We identified 20 Cepheid stars with periods 0.6d < P < 15.3d, compared them with previously published Cepheids, and carried out an accurate completeness analysis in order to obtain the fraction lost. Using their period-luminosity relation, we obtain a distance for Pegasus of 950± 30 kpc.