Infrared surface brightness fluctuations of the coma elliptical galaxy NGC 4874 and the value of the hubble constant

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 557, Issue 1 PART 2, 2001, Pages

  Liu, Michael C ^a,b   Graham, James R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Distance scale; Galaxies: distances and redshifts; Galaxies: elliptical and lenticular, cD; Galaxies: individual (NGC 4874); Infrared: galaxies

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035839367     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/323174     Document Type: Article

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