The Hubble Space Telescope extragalactic distance scale key project. I. The discovery of Cepheids and a new distance to M81

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 427, Issue 2, 1994, Pages 628-655

  Freedman, Wendy L ^a,j   Hughes, Shaun M ^b   Madore, Barry F ^b,j   Mould, Jeremy R ^b   Lee, Myung Gyoon ^a   Stetson, Peter ^c   Kennicutt, Robert C ^d   Turner, Anne ^d   Ferrarese, Laura ^e   Ford, Holland ^e   Graham, John A ^f   Hill, Robert ^a   Hoessel, John G ^g   Huchra, John ^h   Illingworth, Garth D ⁱ  

^a CARNEGIE OBSERVATORIES   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^e STScI   (United States)

^f GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^h HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

ⁱ University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

^j CANADA FRANCE HAWAII TELESCOPE   (United States)

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Author keywords

Cepheids; Distance scale; Galaxies: distances and redshifts; Galaxies: individual (M81)

Indexed keywords

EID: 12044251795     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/174172     Document Type: Article

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