The Carnegie–Chicago Hubble Program. V. The Distances to NGC 1448 and NGC 1316 via the Tip of the Red Giant Branch

The Carnegie–Chicago Hubble Program (CCHP) is recalibrating the extragalactic SN Ia distance scale using exclusively Population II stars. This effort focuses on the Tip of the Red Giant Branch (TRGB) method, whose systematics are entirely independent of the Population I Cepheid-based determinations...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The Astrophysical journal 2018-10, Vol.866 (2), p.145
Hauptverfasser:	Hatt, Dylan, Freedman, Wendy L., Madore, Barry F., Jang, In Sung, Beaton, Rachael L., Hoyt, Taylor J., Lee, Myung Gyoon, Monson, Andrew J., Rich, Jeffrey A., Scowcroft, Victoria, Seibert, Mark
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Anchoring Astrophysics Cepheid variables Galactic halos Galaxies Halos Hubble Space Telescope Magellanic clouds Space telescopes Stellar populations Systematics
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