The Araucaria Meeting is a biennial event that brings together astronomers from Poland, France, Italy, Germany, the USA, and Chile, who work on the calibration of the cosmic distance scale and related topics.
Measurements of parallaxes of 81 detached eclipsing binary stars in the Milky Way allowed for the determination of the global zero-point shift in the Gaia Data Release 2 (DR2) parallaxes.
Applications are invited for one postdoctoral position at the Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center (NCAC), in Warsaw, Poland, in the field of extragalactic distance scale.
With great sadness we inform that the Araucaria’s member, Zbigniew Kołaczkowski, passed away on September 22, 2018.
Metallicity is a vital parameter that impacts classical Cepheids’ luminosities. In all observed bands, metal-poor Cepheids in the SMC are intrinsically fainter than their more metal-rich counterparts in the LMC and MW.
Based on new observations and improved modeling techniques, we have re-analyzed seven Cepheids in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
Before we start an observing night, twice a year we get to see this gem: a marvelous sunset captured from Observatory Cerro Murphy of the setting Sun, that illuminates four Unit Telescopes of Very...
We present analysis of eclipsing binary star LL Aqr which contains a solar twin component.
We present the results of a study of the type II Cepheid in the eclipsing binary system OGLE-LMC-T2CEP-098.
The Araucaria Meeting took place at the end of September 2017 in Crocow, Poland, and was attended by 23 people from 11 scientific institutions in six countries.