Physical Characterization of the New Globular NASA Wide Infrared Satellite Experiment (WISE – Wright et al. Cluster Garro01 ´ 2010), and the VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea Survey based on observations at the VISTA 4-m telescope (VVV – Minniti We used a combination of near-IR and ...
Cepheids are primary distance indicators of choice for cosmological studies, and Gaia offers the first opportunity to calibrate their distances without the use of geometrical parallaxes from the Hubble Space Telescope [264]. A refined distance scale will help us understand, for instance, how and ...