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Investigating Cepheid โ„“ Carinae's cycle-to-cycle variations via contemporaneous velocimetry and interferometry

Investigating Cepheid โ„“ Carinae's cycle-to-cycle variations via contemporaneous velocimetry and interferometry

Baade-Wesselink-type (BW) techniques enable geometric distance measurements of Cepheid variable stars in the Galaxy and the Magellanic clouds. The leading uncertainties involved concern projection factors required to translate observed radial velocities (RVs) to pulsational velocities and recently discovered modulated variability. We carried out an unprecedented observational campaign involving long-baseline interferometry โ€ฆ