"Towards accurate calibration of the cosmic distance scale: Pulsating stars in the solar neighbourhood in the Gaia era"
Piotr Wielgórski (CAMK, Warsaw)Show abstract
Launched in 2013, the Gaia space mission provides parallaxes of billions
of stars in our neighborhood with unprecedented accuracy. I will present
recent results of the Araucaria project where we use Gaia parallaxes of
nearby pulsating stars and data obtained in the Cerro Armazones
Observatory to improve the accuracy of distance measurements in the
Universe.
