The Carnegie-Chicago Hubble Program. II. IC 1613

DOI

IC 1613 is an isolated dwarf galaxy within the Local Group. Low foreground and internal extinction, low metallicity, and low crowding make it an invaluable testbed for the calibration of the local distance ladder. We present new, high-fidelity distance estimates to IC 1613 via its Tip of the Red Giant Branch (TRGB) and its RR Lyrae (RRL) variables as part of the Carnegie-Chicago Hubble Program, which seeks an alternate local route to H_0_ using Population II stars. We have measured a TRGB magnitude I_ACS_^TRGB^=20.35+/-0.01_stat_+/-0.01_sys_mag using wide-field observations obtained from the IMACS camera on the Magellan-Baade telescope. We have further constructed optical and near-infrared RRL light curves using archival BI- and new H-band observations from the ACS/WFC and WFC3/IR instruments on board the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). In advance of future Gaia data releases, we set provisional values for the TRGB luminosity via the Large Magellanic Cloud and Galactic RRL zero-points via HST parallaxes. We find corresponding true distance moduli {mu}0^TRGB^=24.30+/-0.03_stat_+/-0.05_sys_mag and =24.28+/-0.04_stat+sys_mag. We compare our results to a body of recent publications on IC 1613 and find no statistically significant difference between the distances derived from Population I and II stars.

Cone search capability for table J/ApJ/845/146/table5 (IC 1613 RR Lyrae (RRL) ACS/WFC WCS Circa 2017 & photometry notes)

Identifier
DOI http://doi.org/10.26093/cds/vizier.18450146
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Provenance
Creator Hatt D.; Beaton R.L.; Freedman W.L.; Madore B.F.; Jang I.-S.; Hoyt T.J.,Lee M.G.; Monson A.J.; Rich J.A.; Scowcroft V.; Seibert M.
Publisher CDS
Publication Year 2018
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Resource Type Dataset; AstroObjects
Discipline Astrophysics and Astronomy; Galactic and extragalactic Astronomy; Natural Sciences; Observational Astronomy; Physics; Stellar Astronomy