The Extragalactic Distance Scale
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Part of Space Telescope Science Institute Symposium Series
- Editors:
- Mario Livio, Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore
- Megan Donahue, Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore
- Nino Panagia, Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore
- Date Published: July 1997
- availability: Unavailable - out of print
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521591645
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One of the hottest debates in astronomy and cosmology today concerns the value of the Hubble constant. This constant is of paramount importance since it fixes the size and age of the Universe. At a symposium at the Space Telescope Science Institute, experts from around the world presented the latest results from a plethora of techniques for determining the Hubble constant. The value has always been controversial, but at this meeting experts' results agreed for the first time to within about 20%. Based on the meeting, this book presents twenty-three specially written review articles. They provide a comprehensive account of the Hubble-constant debate with the latest results from gravitational lensing, supernovae and novae, the Tully-Fisher relation, the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect, globular clusters, planetary nebulae, light echoes, and the Hubble Space Telescope Key Project. This timely volume provides a standard reference for graduate students and researchers in astronomy and cosmology.
Read more- Reviews the latest results from all the major research groups worldwide
- Hottest topic in astronomy today, and excellent line-up of contributors
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'This well-produced book … contains an important mid-term summary report on the Hubble Space Telescope Project on the EDS from Freedman, Madore and Kennicutt, and is essential research library literature.' Irish Astronomical Journal
See more reviews' … highly recommended.' Paul O'Brien The Observatory
'[covers] every aspect of this fascinating topic. The succession of 23 review articles expertly summarise the efforts of modern astronomy to measure the Hubble constant.' Astronomy Now
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- Date Published: July 1997
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521591645
- length: 337 pages
- dimensions: 255 x 178 x 22 mm
- weight: 0.854kg
- contains: 15 b/w illus. 40 tables
- availability: Unavailable - out of print
Table of Contents
Participants
Preface
Foreword
Early history of the distance scale problem, S. van den Bergh
Cosmology: From Hubble to HST, M. S. Turner
Age constraints nucleocosmochronology, J. Truran
The ages of globular clusters, P. Demarque
The linearity of the Hubble flow M. Postman
Gravitational lensing and the extragalactic distance scale, R. D. Blandford andT . Kundic
Using the cosmic microwave background to constrain the Hubble constant A. Lasenby and T M. Jones
Cepheids as distance indicators, N. R. Tanvir
The I-band Tully–Fisher relation and the Hubble constant, R. Giovanell
The calibration of type 1a supernovae as standard candles, A. Saha
Focusing in on the Hubble constant, G. A. Tammann & M. Federspiel
Interim report on the calibration of the Tully–Fisher relation in the HST Key Project to measure the Hubble constant, J. Mould et al.
Hubble Space Telescope Key Project on the extragalactic distance scale, W. L. Freedman, B. F. Madore and T R. C. Kennicutt
Novae as distance indicators, M. Livio
Verifying the planetary nebula luminosity function method, G. H. Jacoby
On the possible use of radio supernovae for distance determinations, K. W. Weiler et al.
Post-AGB stars as standard candles, H. Bond
Helium core flash at the tip of the red giant branch: a population II distance indicator, B. F. Madore, W. L. Freedman and T S. Sakai
Globular clusters as distance indicators, B. C. Whitmore
Detached eclipsing binaries as primary distance and age indicators, B. Paczynski
Light echoes: geometric measurement of galaxy distances, W. B. Sparks
The SBF survey of galaxy distances J. L. Tonry
Extragalactic distance scales: The long and short of it, V. Trimble.
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