A distance to the galaxy NGC4258 from observations of Cepheid variable stars

Nature

Volumn 401, Issue 6751, 1999, Pages 351-354

  Maoz, Eyal ^a,b   Newman, Jeffrey A ^b   Ferrarese, Laura ^c   Stetson, Peter B ^d   Zepf, Stephen E ^e   Davis, Marc ^b   Freedman, Wendy L ^f   Madore, Barry F ^g  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^e YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f CARNEGIE OBSERVATORIES   (United States)

^g CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; COSMOS; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; GEOMETRY; LIGHT; LUMINANCE; PHOTOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CEPHEIDAE;

EID: 0033598336     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/43838     Document Type: Article

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