The Tolman surface brightness test for the reality of the expansion. I. Calibration of the necessary local parameters

Astronomical Journal

Volumn 121, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 2271-2288

  Sandage, Allan ^a   Lubin, Lori M ^b,c  

^a CARNEGIE OBSERVATORIES   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmology: observations; Galaxies: clusters: general

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141543681     PISSN: 00046256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/320394     Document Type: Article

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