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Caption: Figure 9.
HST NIR Wesenheit Cepheid P–L relations. The Cepheid magnitudes are shown for 37 SN Ia hosts, M31, and 2 of the 3 possible distance-scale anchors (LMC and NGC 4258). The uniformity of the photometry and metallicity reduces systematic errors along the distance ladder. A single slope is shown and used for the baseline, but we also allow for a break (two slopes) as well as limited period ranges in some analysis variants.
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