Gaia's Cepheids and RR Lyrae Stars and Luminosity Calibrations Based on Tycho-Gaia Astrometric Solution

Gisella Clementini, Laurent Eyer, Tatiana Muraveva, Alessia Garofalo, Vincenzo Ripepi, Marcella Marconi, Luis Sarro, Max Palmer, Xavier Luri, Roberto Molinaro, Lorenzo Rimoldini, Laszlo Szabados, Richard I. Anderson, Ilaria Musella

Published 2017-04-28Version 1

Gaia Data Release 1 contains parallaxes for more than 700 Galactic Cepheids and RR Lyrae stars, computed as part of the Tycho-Gaia Astrometric Solution (TGAS). We have used TGAS parallaxes, along with literature ($V, I, J, {K_\mathrm{s}}, W_1$) photometry and spectroscopy, to calibrate the zero point of the Period-Luminosity and Period-Wesenheit relations of classical and type II Cepheids, and the near-infrared Period-Luminosity, Period-Luminosity-Metallicity and optical Luminosity-Metallicity relations of RR Lyrae stars. In this contribution we briefly summarise results obtained by fitting these basic relations adopting different techniques that operate either in parallax or distance (absolute magnitude) space.