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| | [21.04D] Distances to M101, NGC 2403, and NGC 2366 via Long Period Variables (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17) |
 | | To verify the effectiveness of these RSV PL relations, the distances to the galaxies M101, NGC 2403, and NGC 2366 were determined. |
 | | The number of RSVs discovered in M101, NGC 2403, and NGC 2366 was 42, 61, and 20, respectively. |
 | | By assuming a distance modulus for the Large Magellanic Cloud of 18.5 ±0.1 mag, single epoch I-band photometry of the RSVs was used to construct random phase PL relations resulting in distance moduli for M101, NGC 2403, and NGC 2366 of 29.40 ±0.16, 27.67 ± 0.16, and 27.86 ±0.20 mag, respectively. |
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