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This paper presents the calibration of BVRIH$ Tully-Fisher relations based on Cepheid distances to 21 galaxies within 25 Mpc, and 23 clusters within 10,000 km/s. These relations have been applied to several distant cluster surveys in order…

We present an overview of and preliminary results from an ongoing comprehensive program that has a goal of determining the Hubble constant to a systematic accuracy of 2%. As part of this program, we are currently obtaining 3.6 micron data…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Wendy L. Freedman , Barry F. Madore , Vicky Scowcroft , Andy Monson , S. E. Persson , Mark Seibert , Jane Rigby , Laura Sturch , Peter Stetson

The estimation of the Hubble constant in the past few decades has increasingly become more accurate with the advance of new techniques. But its value seems to depend on the epoch at which the measurements are made. The Planck estimate of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-30 Louise Rebecca , C Sivaram , Dominic Sebastian , Kenath Arun

We use the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) on the Hubble Space Telescope to determine the Hubble constant (H0) from optical and infrared observations of over 600 Cepheid variables in the host galaxies of 8 recent Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia),…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Adam G. Riess , Lucas Macri , Stefano Casertano , Hubert Lampeitl , Henry C. Ferguson , Alexei V. Filippenko , Saurabh W. Jha , Weidong Li , Ryan Chornock

In this work, we constrain the Hubble constant parameter, $H_0$, using a combination of the Pantheon sample and galaxy clusters (GC) measurements from minimal cosmological assumptions. Assuming the validity of the cosmic distance duality…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-27 L. R. Colaço , M. S. Ferreira , R. F. L. Holanda , J. E. Gonzalez , Rafael C. Nunes

New distances, larger than previous ones, have been obtained for M 31 and M 81 based on the geometrical zero-point of the Cepheid Period-luminosity relation provided by the HIPPARCOS satellite. By combining them with independent…

This is the fifth and final summary paper of our 15 year program using the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) to determine the Hubble constant using Type Ia supernovae, calibrated with Cepheid variables in nearby galaxies that hosted them.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Sandage , G. A. Tammann , A. Saha , B. Reindl , F. D. Macchetto , N. Panagia

Measured gravitational waveforms from black hole binary inspiral events directly determine absolute luminosity distances. To use these data for cosmology, it is necessary to independently obtain redshifts for the events, which may be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Chelsea L. MacLeod , Craig J. Hogan

Joint analysis of Cosmic Microwave Background, Baryon Acoustic Oscillation, and supernova data has enabled precision estimation of cosmological parameters. New programs will push to 1% uncertainty in the dark energy equation of state and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-26 Lincoln Greenhill , Elizabeth Humphreys , Wayne Hu , Lucas Macri , David Murphy , Karen Masters , Yoshiaki Hagiwara , Hideyuki Kobayashi , Yasuhiro Murata

Measurement of the distances to nearby galaxies have improved rapidly in recent decades. The ever-present challenge is to reduce systematic effects, especially as greater distances are probed, and the uncertainties become larger. In this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-29 Wendy L. Freedman

The Hubble constant, which measures the expansion rate, together with the total energy density of the Universe, sets the size of the observable Universe, its age, and its radius of curvature. Excellent progress has been made recently toward…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Wendy L. Freedman

The most stringent local measurement of the Hubble-Lema\^itre constant from Cepheid-calibrated Type Ia supernovae (SNe~Ia) differs from the value inferred via the cosmic microwave background radiation ({\it Planck}$+\Lambda$CDM) by $\sim…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-29 T. de Jaeger , L. Galbany , A. G. Riess , B. E. Stahl , B. J. Shappee , A. V. Filippenko , W. Zheng

The Megamaser Cosmology Project inferred a value for the Hubble constant given by $H_0=73.9 \pm 3.0 $ km/sec/Mpc. This value was obtained using Bayesian inference by marginalizing over six nuisance parameters, corresponding to the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-23 Shubham Barua , Vyaas Ramakrishnan , Shantanu Desai

We have had the chance to live through a fascinating revolution in measuring the fundamental empirical cosmological Hubble law. The key progress is analysed : 1) improvement of observational means (ground-based radio and optical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-10 Georges Paturel , Pekka Teerikorpi , Yurij Baryshev

We establish a cosmological-model-independent method to determine the Hubble constant $H_0$ from the localized fast radio bursts (FRBs) and the Hubble parameter measurements from cosmic chronometers and obtain a first such determination…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-12 Yang Liu , Hongwei Yu , Puxun Wu

It is shown that the Hubble constant can be derived from the standard luminosity function of galaxies as well as from a new luminosity function as deduced from the mass-luminosity relationship for galaxies. An analytical expression for the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-20 Lorenzo Zaninetti

In this work, we obtain Hubble constant ($H_0$) estimates by using two galaxy cluster gas mass fraction measurement samples, Type Ia supernovae luminosity distances, and the validity of the cosmic distance duality relation. Notably, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-09 Javier E. Gonzalez , Marcelo Ferreira , Leorando R. Colaço , Rodrigo F. L. Holanda , Rafael C. Nunes

We report the first results of a long term program aiming to provide accurate independent estimates of the Hubble constant (H0) using the L-sigma distance estimator for Giant extragalactic HII regions (GEHR) and HII galaxies. We have used…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Ricardo Chavez , Elena Terlevich , Roberto Terlevich , Manolis Plionis , Fabio Bresolin , Spyros Basilakos , Jorge Melnick

Recent observations of Cepheids in the Virgo cluster have bolstered the evidence that supports a Hubble constant in 70-90 km/s/Mpc range. This evidence, by and large, probes the expansion of the Universe within 100 Mpc. We investigate the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Xiangdong Shi , Lawrence M. Widrow , L. Jonathan Dursi

We present a measurement of the Hubble constant $H_0$ from surface brightness fluctuation (SBF) distances for 63 bright, mainly early-type galaxies out to 100 Mpc observed with the Wide Field Camera 3 Infrared Channel (WFC3/IR) on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-27 John P. Blakeslee , Joseph B. Jensen , Chung-Pei Ma , Peter A. Milne , Jenny E. Greene