Bias properties of extragalactic distance indicators. X. The teerikorpi cluster population incompleteness bias for a modified Lemaître-Robertson-Hubble-Humason distance method that uses luminosity functions

Astronomical Journal

Volumn 123, Issue 3 1755, 2002, Pages 1179-1187

  Sandage, Allan ^a  

^a CARNEGIE OBSERVATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Distance scale; Galaxies: clusters: general; Galaxies: clusters: individual (Virgo, Ursa Major)

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041689907     PISSN: 00046256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/339023     Document Type: Article

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