Final results from the Hubble Space Telescope key project to measure the Hubble constant

Astrophysical Journal Letters

Volumn 553, Issue 1 PART 1, 2001, Pages 47-72

  Freedman, Wendy L ^a   Madore, Barry F ^a,b   Gibson, Brad K ^c   Ferrarese, Laura ^d   Kelson, Daniel D ^e   Sakai, Shoko ^f   Mould, Jeremy R ^g   Kennicutt Jr , Robert C ^h   Ford, Holland C ⁱ   Graham, John A ^e   Huchra, John P ^j   Hughes, Shaun M G ^k   Illingworth, Garth D ^l   Macri, Lucas M ^j   Stetson, Peter B ^m  

^a CARNEGIE OBSERVATORIES   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^d RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f NATIONAL OPTICAL ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^g AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

ⁱ JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^l University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

^m NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

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Author keywords

Cepheids; Cosmology: Observations; Distance scale; Galaxies: Distances and redshifts

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035918620     PISSN: 20418205     EISSN: 20418213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/320638     Document Type: Article

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