Chemical Composition of Cepheids in the Milky Way and in the Magellanic Clouds

B. Lemasle, L. Inno, M. A. T. Groenewegen, V. V. Kovtyukh, G. Bono, R. da Silva, P. François, K. Genovali, E. K. Grebel, N. Matsunaga and M. Romaniello

Cepheids are excellent tracers of young stellar populations. Here we present some assets of Cepheids and describe the specifics of their chemical analysis, before presenting several recent results obtained for Cepheids in the Milky Way disk and in the Magellanic Clouds.

Proceedings of the Polish Astronomical Society, vol. 6, 82-87 (2018)

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