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:
- Empirical calibration of the reddening maps in the Magellanic Clouds — paper
- Spectral analysis and stellar parameters of detached O-type systems — paper I, paper II
- Orbital parallax and masses of eclipsing binaries — paper
- Candidates for non-pulsating stars located in the Cepheid instability strip — paper
- Distance determination to the LMC precise to 1% — paper
- Zero-point shift of Gaia DR2 parallaxes — paper
- Multi-band Calibrations of the TRGB Absolute Magnitude — paper
- The effect of metallicity on Cepheid period-luminosity relations — paper
- Type II Cepheid in the eclipsing binary OGLE-LMC-T2CEP-211 — paper
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