The Hubble Space Telescope key project on the extragalactic distance scale. XX. The discovery of cepheids in the virgo cluster galaxy NGC 4548

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 516, Issue 2 PART 1, 1999, Pages 626-646

  Graham, John A ^a   Ferrarese, Laura ^b   Freedman, Wendy L ^c   Kennicutt Jr , Robert C ^d   Mould, Jeremy R ^e   Saha, Abhijit ^f   Stetson, Peter B ^g   Madore, Barry F ^b   Bresolin, Fabio ^d,h   Ford, Holland C ⁱ   Gibson, Brad K ^j   Han, Mingsheng ^k   Hoessel, John G ^k   Huchra, John ^l   Hughes, Shaun M ^m   Illingworth, Garth D ⁿ   Kelson, Daniel D ^a,n   Macri, Lucas ^l   Phelps, Randy ^c   Sakai, Shoko ^f   Silbermann, N A ^b   Turner, Anne ^d   more..

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c CARNEGIE OBSERVATORIES   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^e AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f KITT PEAK NATIONAL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^g NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^h EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

ⁱ JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^l HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^m ROYAL GREENWICH OBSERVATORY   (United Kingdom)

ⁿ University of California at Santa Cruz   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

Cepheids; Distance scale; Galaxies: clusters: individual (Virgo); Galaxies: individual (NGC 4548)

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033541743     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/307151     Document Type: Article

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