{"id":32,"date":"2018-02-07T13:54:40","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T13:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/araucaria.camk.edu.pl\/?page_id=32"},"modified":"2024-11-19T10:56:15","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T10:56:15","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/araucaria.camk.edu.pl\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Our most highlighted results<\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"su-custom-gallery su-custom-gallery-align-left su-custom-gallery-title-always\"><div class=\"su-custom-gallery-slide\" style=\"width:200px;height:200px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/araucaria.camk.edu.pl\/index.php\/2024\/09\/17\/projection-factor-and-radii-of-nearby-bl-her-stars\/\" title=\"Projection factor and radii of nearby BL Her stars\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/araucaria.camk.edu.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Wielgorski2024_thumbnail-200x200.jpg\" alt=\"Projection factor and radii of nearby BL Her stars\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><span class=\"su-custom-gallery-title\">Projection factor and radii of nearby BL Her stars<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class=\"su-custom-gallery-slide\" style=\"width:200px;height:200px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/araucaria.camk.edu.pl\/index.php\/2024\/06\/30\/nine-cepheid-cepheid-binaries-confirmed-spectroscopically\/\" title=\"Nine Cepheid-Cepheid binaries confirmed spectroscopically\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/araucaria.camk.edu.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Pilecki2024_fig2_thumbnail-200x200.png\" alt=\"Nine Cepheid-Cepheid binaries confirmed spectroscopically\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><span class=\"su-custom-gallery-title\">Nine Cepheid-Cepheid binaries confirmed spectroscopically<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class=\"su-custom-gallery-slide\" style=\"width:200px;height:200px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/araucaria.camk.edu.pl\/index.php\/2024\/05\/20\/physical-properties-of-the-quadruple-system-with-early-type-eclipsing-binary\/\" title=\"Physical properties of the quadruple system with early-type eclipsing binary\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/araucaria.camk.edu.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Taormina2024_thumbnail-200x200.jpg\" alt=\"Physical properties of the quadruple system with early-type eclipsing binary\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><span class=\"su-custom-gallery-title\">Physical properties of the quadruple system with early-type eclipsing binary<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class=\"su-custom-gallery-slide\" style=\"width:200px;height:200px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/araucaria.camk.edu.pl\/index.php\/2024\/04\/19\/orbital-parameters-of-the-inner-binary-system-of-the-%ce%b4-cephei-system\/\" title=\"Orbital parameters of the inner binary system of the \u03b4 Cephei system\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/araucaria.camk.edu.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Nardetto2024_thumbnail-200x200.jpg\" alt=\"Orbital parameters of the inner binary system of the \u03b4 Cephei system\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><span class=\"su-custom-gallery-title\">Orbital parameters of the inner binary system of the \u03b4 Cephei system<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class=\"su-clear\"><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Other important results<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Projection factor and radii of nearby BL Her stars &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aanda.org\/articles\/aa\/pdf\/2024\/09\/aa50182-24.pdf\">read<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/3FSmug5MtnE\">listen<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>PL and PLZ relations in the Sloan bands for Galactic RR Lyrae stars &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1051\/0004-6361\/202450364\">read<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Surface brightness-color technique applied to nearby RR Lyrae stars &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/ui.adsabs.harvard.edu\/abs\/2024arXiv240802102Z\/abstract\">read<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Physical properties of the quadruple system with early-type eclipsing binary &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/ui.adsabs.harvard.edu\/abs\/2024ApJ...967...64T\/abstract\">read<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Baade-Wesselink projection factor of RR Lyrae stars calibrated from Gaia parallaxes &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/ui.adsabs.harvard.edu\/abs\/2024A%26A...684A.126B\/abstract\">read<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Orbital parameters of \u03b4 Cephei inner binary system &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/ui.adsabs.harvard.edu\/abs\/2024A%26A...684L...9N\/abstract\">read<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Nine Cepheid-Cepheid binaries confirmed spectroscopically &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/ui.adsabs.harvard.edu\/abs\/2024A%26A...686A.263P\/abstract\">read<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Extinction estimates for long-period maser-bearing Miras in the Galactic center &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/ui.adsabs.harvard.edu\/abs\/2023A%26A...677A.153L\/abstract\">read<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Period-luminosity relations for Galactic classical Cepheids in the Sloan bands &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/ui.adsabs.harvard.edu\/abs\/2023ApJ...953...14N\/abstract\">read<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>New near-infrared period-luminosity-metallicity relations for Galactic RR Lyrae stars based on Gaia EDR3 parallaxes &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/ui.adsabs.harvard.edu\/abs\/2023ApJ...951..114Z\/abstract\">read<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>For more results search <a href=\"https:\/\/araucaria.camk.edu.pl\/index.php\/papers-date\/\">PAPERS<\/a> and glimpse at <a href=\"https:\/\/araucaria.camk.edu.pl\/index.php\/category\/science-highlights\/\">SCIENCE HIGHLIGHTS<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Our team&#8217;s activities<\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"su-custom-gallery su-custom-gallery-align-left su-custom-gallery-title-always\"><div class=\"su-custom-gallery-slide\" style=\"width:200px;height:200px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/araucaria.camk.edu.pl\/index.php\/2026\/01\/27\/european-research-council-proof-of-concept-grant-for-the-project-autonomous-observatories\/\" title=\"European Research Council Proof of Concept grant for the project \u201eAutonomous Observatories\u201d\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/araucaria.camk.edu.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ocm2025-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"European Research Council Proof of Concept grant for the project \u201eAutonomous Observatories\u201d\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><span class=\"su-custom-gallery-title\">European Research Council Proof of Concept grant for the project \u201eAutonomous Observatories\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class=\"su-custom-gallery-slide\" style=\"width:200px;height:200px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/araucaria.camk.edu.pl\/index.php\/2025\/12\/01\/new-phd-student-in-camk-warsaw-poland\/\" title=\"New PhD student in CAMK Warsaw, Poland\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/araucaria.camk.edu.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/mradziwonowicz-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"New PhD student in CAMK Warsaw, Poland\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><span class=\"su-custom-gallery-title\">New PhD student in CAMK Warsaw, Poland<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class=\"su-custom-gallery-slide\" style=\"width:200px;height:200px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/araucaria.camk.edu.pl\/index.php\/2024\/12\/02\/job-opportunity\/\" title=\"We&#8217;re hiring!\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/araucaria.camk.edu.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/job-poster-Dec31-2024-thumbnail-200x200.jpg\" alt=\"We&#8217;re hiring!\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><span class=\"su-custom-gallery-title\">We&#8217;re hiring!<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class=\"su-custom-gallery-slide\" style=\"width:200px;height:200px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/araucaria.camk.edu.pl\/index.php\/2024\/11\/01\/new-post-doc-fellow-in-camk-warsaw-poland-5\/\" title=\"New post-doc fellow in CAMK Warsaw, Poland\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/araucaria.camk.edu.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/HN-200x200.jpg\" alt=\"New post-doc fellow in CAMK Warsaw, Poland\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><span class=\"su-custom-gallery-title\">New post-doc fellow in CAMK Warsaw, Poland<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class=\"su-clear\"><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/araucaria.camk.edu.pl\/index.php\/category\/news-in-the-team\/\">NEWS IN THE TEAM<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The main goal of the Araucaria Project is to improve the calibration of the cosmic distance scale in the local Universe. 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