Stellar Candles for the Extragalactic Distance Scale

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Alloin, Danielle (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Gieren, Wolfgang (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2003.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2003.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics, 635
• Subjects: Observations, Astronomical.; Astronomy-Observations.; Astrophysics.; Gravitation.; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.; Astrophysics and Astroparticles.; Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory.

This volume reviews the current status with respect to both theory and observation of the extragalactic distance scale. A sufficient accuracy is required both for a precise determination of the cosmological parameters and also in order to achieve a better understanding of physical processes in extra...

Table of Contents:

• The HST Key Project on the Extragalactic Distance Scale: A Search for Three Number
• Calibration of the Distance Scale From Cepheids
• Currents Uncertainties in the Use of Cepheids as Distance Indicators
• The Cepheid Calibration of Type Ia Supernovae as Standard Candles
• RR Lyrae Distance Scale: Theory and Observations
• Globular Cluster Distances From RR Lyrae Stars
• Blue Supergiants as a Tool For Extragalactic Distance - Theoretical Concepts
• Blue Supergiants as a Tool for Extragalactic Distances - Empirical Diagnostics
• Supernovae as Cosmological Standard Candles
• Type Ia -Supernovae and Cosmology Models for Type Ia Supernovae and Cosmology
• Novae as Distance Indicators
• Extragalactic Distances from Planetary Nebulae
• Distances to Local Group Galaxies
• The Globular Cluster Luminosity Function: New Progress in Understanding an Old Distance Indicator.