The VLTI is the ideal instrument for measuring the distances of nearby
Cepheids with the Baade-Wesselink method, allowing an accurate recalibration of
the Cepheid Period-Luminosity relation. The high accuracy required by such
measurement, however, can only be reached taking into account the effects of
limb darkening, and its dependence on the Cepheid pulsations. We present here
our new method to compute phase- and wavelength-dependent limb darkening
profiles, based on hydrodynamic simulation of Classical Cepheid atmospheres.Comment: 3 pages, 2 postscript figures, uses eas.cls LaTeX class file, to
appear in the proc. Eurowinter School "Observing with the VLTI", Feb 3-8
2002, Les Houches (France