A Cepheid distance to the fornax cluster and the local expansion rate of the Universe

Nature

Volumn 395, Issue 6697, 1998, Pages 47-50

  Madore, Barry F ^a   Freedman, Wendy L ^b   Silbermann, N ^a   Harding, Paul ^c   Huchra, John ^d   Mould, Jeremy R ^e   Graham, John A ^f   Ferrarese, Laura ^g   Gibson, Brad K ^d   Han, Mingsheng ^h   Hoessel, John G ^h   Hughes, Shaun M ⁱ   Illingworth, Garth D ^j   Phelps, Randy ^b   Sakai, Shoko ^a   Stetson, Peter ^k  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE OBSERVATORIES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^e AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^g CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

ⁱ ROYAL GREENWICH OBSERVATORY   (United Kingdom)

^j University of California at Santa Cruz   (United States)

^k NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; COSMOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; COSMOS; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; LUMINANCE; METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VELOCITY;

EID: 0032480333     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/25678     Document Type: Article

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