Has blending compromised cepheid-based determinations of the extragalactic distance scale?

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 530, Issue 1 PART 2, 2000, Pages

  Gibson, Brad K ^a   Maloney, Philip R ^a   Sakai, Shoko ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b KITT PEAK NATIONAL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cepheids; Distance scale; Galaxies: Distances and redshifts

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034628172     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/312477     Document Type: Article

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