Cepheid calibrations from the hubble space telescope of the luminosity of two recent type Ia supernovae and a redetermination of the hubble constant

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 627, Issue 2 I, 2005, Pages 579-607

  Riess, Adam G ^a   Li, Weidong ^b   Stetson, Peter B ^c   Filippenko, Alexei V ^b   Jha, Saurabh ^b   Kirshner, Robert P ^d   Challis, Peter M ^d   Garnavich, Peter M ^e   Chornock, Ryan ^c  

^a STScI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^d HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmology: observations; Distance scale; Galaxies: distances and redshifts; Supernovae: general

Indexed keywords

EID: 25844492012     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/430497     Document Type: Article

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