The Hubble Space Telescope Key Project to Measure the Hubble Constant Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • A Joint Discussion on the extragalactic distance scale and the Hubble constant took place fifteen years ago, at the 1982 XVIIIth General Assembly of the IAU, held in Patras, Greece. At that time, the newest applications of infrared photometers to Tully-Fisher measurements (Aaronson 1983) and Cepheid distances (Madore 1983) were reported. CCDs were just coming into use and had not yet been applied to extragalactic distance determinations; all of the extragalactic Cepheid distances were based on photographic Argelander (eye-estimated) photometry (Tammann and Sandage 1983 and references therein). No Cepheid distances to type Ia supernova-host galaxies were available.

published proceedings

  • Symposium - International Astronomical Union

author list (cited authors)

  • Freedman, W. L., Mould, J. R., Kennicutt, R. C., & Madore, B. F.

citation count

  • 14

complete list of authors

  • Freedman, Wendy L||Mould, Jeremy R||Kennicutt, Robert C||Madore, Barry F

publication date

  • January 1999