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Hipparcos trigonometrical parallaxes of Cepheid variables are used to derive a zeropoint for the period-luminosity (PL) relation. Adopting a slope from the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), the relation is found to be (M v > = -2.81l0gP-1.43.
Feast et al. (Fri,) studied this question.