Period-luminosity relation for cepheids

Period-Luminosity relation in the V band, as deduced from the interferometric observations of Cepheids and the HST parallax measurement of Delta Cep. The green line is the fitted P-L relation, assuming the slope from previous authors (Gieren et al.; 1998, ApJ, 496, 17). The agreement between the model and the measurements is excellent, in particular for the high-precision measurements of Delta Cep and L Car.