Tip of the red giant branch distances. I. Optimization of a maximum likelihood algorithm

Astronomical Journal

Volumn 132, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 2729-2742

  Makarov, Dmitry ^a,e,f,g   Makarova, Lidia ^a,e,f   Rizzi, Luca ^a   Tully, R Brent ^a   Dolphin, Andrew E ^b   Sakai, Shoko ^c   Shaya, Edward J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^e RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^f Isaac Newton Institute of Chile   (Russian Federation)

^g OBSERVATOIRE DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

Galaxies: distances and redshifts; Galaxies: stellar content; Methods: data analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845936535     PISSN: 00046256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/508925     Document Type: Article

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