Bias properties of extragalactic distance indicators. VIII. H0 from distance-limited luminosity class and morphological type-specific luminosity functions for sb, sbc and sc galaxies calibrated using cepheids

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 527, Issue 2 PART 1, 1999, Pages 479-487

  Sandage, Allan ^a  

^a CARNEGIE OBSERVATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Cepheids; Cosmology: Observations; Distance scale; Galaxies: Luminosity function, mass function; Galaxies: Spiral

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033589915     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/308123     Document Type: Article

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