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Using a mid-infrared calibration of the Cepheid distance scale based on recent observations at 3.6 um with the Spitzer Space Telescope, we have obtained a new, high-accuracy calibration of the Hubble constant. We have established the mid-IR…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Wendy L. Freedman , Barry F. Madore , Victoria Scowcroft , Chris Burns , Andy Monson , S. Eric Persson , Mark Seibert , Jane Rigby

The Carnegie Hubble Program (CHP) is designed to calibrate the extragalactic distance scale using data from the post-cryogenic era of the Spitzer Space Telescope. The ultimate goal of the CHP is a systematic improvement in the distance…

We have observed the dwarf galaxy IC 1613, at multiple epochs in the mid--infrared using Spitzer and contemporaneously in the near--infrared using the new FourStar near-IR camera on Magellan. We have constructed Cepheid period--luminosity…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Victoria Scowcroft , Wendy L. Freedman , Barry F. Madore , Andrew J. Monson , S. E. Persson , Mark Seibert , Jane R. Rigby , Jason Melbourne

The Carnegie Hubble Program (CHP) is designed to improve the extragalactic distance scale using data from the post-cryogenic era of Spitzer. The ultimate goal is a determination of the Hubble constant to an accuracy of 2%. This paper is the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Victoria Scowcroft , Wendy Freedman , Barry F. Madore , Andrew J. Monson , S. E. Persson , Mark Seibert , Jane R. Rigby , Laura Sturch

We present here the final results of the Hubble Space Telescope Key Project to measure the Hubble constant. We summarize our method, the results and the uncertainties, tabulate our revised distances, and give the implications of these…

We present the latest results from the Chicago-Carnegie Hubble Program (\cchp) to measure the Hubble constant, using data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The overall program aims to calibrate three independent methods: (1) Tip…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-19 Wendy L. Freedman , Barry F. Madore , In Sung Jang , Taylor J. Hoyt , Abigail J. Lee , Kayla A. Owens

Considerable progress has been made in determining the Hubble constant over the past two decades. We discuss the cosmological context and importance of an accurate measurement of the Hubble constant, and focus on six high-precision…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Wendy L. Freedman , Barry F. Madore

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

We review the use of Cepheids as distance indicators with particular emphasis on the methods which have been applied to HST observations of Cepheids. The calibration of the period-luminosity relations is examined in detail and we identify…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 N. R. Tanvir

We present measurements of 68 classical Cepheids with periods from 10 to 78 days observed in the near-infrared by the PHAT Program using the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). The combination of HST's resolution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Adam G. Riess , Juergen Fliri , David Valls-Gabaud

Using Spitzer observations of classical Cepheids we have measured the true average distance modulus of the SMC to be $18.96 \pm 0.01_{stat} \pm 0.03_{sys}$ mag (corresponding to $62 \pm 0.3$ kpc), which is $0.48 \pm 0.01$ mag more distant…

A review of the Hubble Space Telescope H0 Key Project is given, as presented at the IAU Symposium 183 on "Cosmological Parameters" held in Kyoto, Japan in August, 1997. An outline of the goals and progress toward this effort is given.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Wendy L. Freedman , Jeremy R. Mould , Robert C. Kennicutt , Barry F. Madore

Distance measures on a coherent scale around the sky are required to address the outstanding cosmological problems of the Hubble Constant and of departures from the mean cosmic flow. The correlation between galaxy luminosities and rotation…

We use the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) to reduce the uncertainty in the local value of the Hubble constant (H_0) from 3.3% to 2.4%. Improvements come from new, near-infrared observations of Cepheid…

The mid-infrared period-luminosity (P-L) relation for Cepheids will be important in the JWST era, as it holds the promise of deriving the Hubble constant within 2% accuracy. We present the synthetic P-L and period-color (P-C) relations,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-10 C. -C. Ngeow , M. Marconi , I. Musella , M. Cignoni , M. Marengo , S. Kanbur

One of the most exciting and pressing issues in cosmology today is the discrepancy between some measurements of the local Hubble constant and other values of the expansion rate inferred from the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-19 Wendy L. Freedman , Barry F. Madore

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

Cepheids have been the cornerstone of the extragalactic distance scale for a century. With high-quality data, these luminous supergiants exhibit a small dispersion in their Leavitt (period-luminosity) relation, particularly at longer…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-07 Wendy L. Freedman , Barry F. Madore

We present a measurement of the Hubble Constant based on Cepheid distances to 27 galaxies within 20 Mpc. We take the Cepheid data from published measurements by the Hubble Telescope Key Project on the Distance Scale (H0KP). We calibrate the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Jeffrey A. Willick , Puneet Batra

We present an overview of the Carnegie-Chicago Hubble Program, an ongoing program to obtain a 3 per cent measurement of the Hubble constant using alternative methods to the traditional Cepheid distance scale. We aim to establish a…

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