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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 are tracing down the environmental dependencies of the various standard candles by comparing their distances obtained with different methods.

Recent results:

• • • NGC 7793 distance from NIR P-L relations for Cepheids — paper
    • Metallicity effect on Cepheid absolute magnitudes — paper
    • Type II Cepheid in an Eclipsing System — paper — data
    • Occurrence of BEPs in the classical instability strip — paper — data
    • Surface brightness-color calibration — paper
    • Eclipsing binary star LL Aqr — paper
    • On the TRGB distance to the Magellanic Clouds — paper
    • Analysis of the OGLE-LMC-ECL-25658 system — paper
    • Parameters of TZ For — paper
    • OGLE LMC562.05.9009 – Cepheid in the eclipsing system — paper — data
    • Distance to Carina from infrared RR Lyrae stars — paper
    • OGLE LMC562.05.9009 – Cepheid in the eclipsing system — paper — data
    • Eclipsing binary star IO Aqr — paper
    • The CANDID algorithm and an application to six binary Cepheids — paper
    • The surface brightness-color relation and fast rotation of stars — paper

For more results search PAPERS and glimpse at SCIENCE HIGHLIGHTS.