Web page of Lucas Macri

Outreach activities

Astro PhD @ A&M

Graduate admissions

Cepheid variables

This page is currently under construction. In the meantime, I encourage you to read the following papers:

"A Redetermination of the Hubble Constant with the Hubble Space Telescope from a Differential Distance Ladder." Riess, Macri, et al., ApJ, in press (2009).
- Link to astro-ph entry here.
- Press release at STScI here.

"A New Cepheid Distance to the Maser-Host Galaxy NGC 4258 and Its Implications for the Hubble Constant." Macri et al., ApJ 652, 1133 (2006)
- Link to ApJ article here.

"The Extragalactic Distance Scale." Macri, PhD Thesis, Harvard University (2001)
- Full Thesis in PDF and PS formats.
- Public talk in PDF format.