A revised cepheid distance to NGC 4258 and a test of the distance scale

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 553, Issue 2 PART 1, 2001, Pages 562-574

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^d NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^e YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f CARNEGIE OBSERVATORIES   (United States)

^g CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cepheids; Cosmological parameters; Distance scale; Galaxies: individual (NGC 4258); Machine readable table

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035373734     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/320969     Document Type: Article

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