Deviations from the local hubble flow. I. The tip of the red giant branch as a distance indicator

Astronomical Journal

Volumn 124, Issue 1 1759, 2002, Pages 213-233

  Méndez, Bryan ^a   Davis, Marc ^a   Moustakas, John ^b   Newman, Jeffrey ^a   Madore, Barry F ^c   Freedman, Wendy L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c CARNEGIE OBSERVATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmology: observations; Galaxies: distances and redshifts; Large scale structure of universe; Stars: luminosity function, mass function; Stars: Population II

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042522940     PISSN: 00046256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/341168     Document Type: Article

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