Cepheid calibration of the peak brightness of type Ia supernovae. X. SN 1991T in NGC 4527

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 551, Issue 2 PART 1, 2001, Pages 973-1015

  Saha, A ^a   Sandage, Allan ^b   Thim, Frank ^c   Labhardt, Lukas ^c   Tammann, G A ^c   Christensen, J ^a   Panagia, N ^d   Macchetto, F D ^d  

^a NATIONAL OPTICAL ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE OBSERVATORIES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^d AURA for the European Space Agency   (United States)

Author keywords

Cepheids; Distance scale; Galaxies: individual (NGC 4527); Supernovae: individual (SN 1991T)

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035918102     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/320223     Document Type: Article

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