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).
- "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)
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