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The main goal of the Araucaria Project is to improve the calibration of the cosmic distance scale in the local Universe. We trace down environmental dependencies on the brightness of various standard candles by comparing distances to their host galaxies and clusters, obtained with different methods.

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Other important results:

  • VLTI/GRAVITY observations of ten double-lined spectroscopic binaries yield high-precision orbital parallaxes and masses of binary stars — paper
  • A projection factor of eta Aql from HARPS-N high spectral resolution observations — paper
  • Binary origin of a classical Cepheid in a binary system with a 59 day orbital period — paper
  • Precise physical and orbital parameters of two evolved eclipsing binary systems in the Galactic bulge — paper
  • Surface brightness-colour relations of dwarf stars from detached eclipsing binaries — paper
  • Age-metallicity relation of stars in LMC globular clusters and their surroundings — paper
  • RR Lyrae stars in binary systems have companions with masses showing trimodal distribution — paper
  • Metallicity affects the Leavitt Law for Classical Cepheids in the Milky Way and Magellanic Clouds — paper

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