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The tip of the red giant branch (TRGB) is a well-established standard candle used to measure distances to nearby galaxies. The TRGB luminosity is typically measured in the I-band, where the luminosity has little dependency on stellar age or…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-31 Kristen. B. W. McQuinn , Martha Boyer , Evan D. Skillman , Andrew E. Dolphin

The tip of the red giant branch (TRGB) provides a key standard candle for extragalactic distance measurements and for refining the Hubble constant. We test its robustness by quantifying how metallicity, $\alpha$-element enhancement, age,…

The luminosity of the Tip of the Red Giant Branch (TRGB) provides an excellent measure of galaxy distances and is easily determined in the resolved images of nearby galaxies observed with Hubble Space Telescope. There is now a large amount…

The tip of the red giant branch (TRGB) is an important standard candle for determining luminosity distances. Although several $10^5$ small amplitude red giant stars (SARGs) have been discovered, variability was previously considered…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-05 Richard I. Anderson , Nolan W. Koblischke , Laurent Eyer

New theoretical evaluations of the Red Giant Branch Tip (TRGB) luminosity, by adopting the most updated physical inputs in computing canonical stellar models, are presented. Theoretical relations for the run of the TRGB bolometric and I…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 M. Salaris , S. Cassisi

The Tip of the Red Giant Branch (TRGB) is an apparent discontinuity in the color-magnitude diagram (CMD) along the giant branch due to the end of the red giant evolutionary phase and is used to measure distances in the local universe. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-06 J. Wu , D. Scolnic , A. G. Riess , G. S. Anand , R. Beaton , S. Casertano , X. Ke , S. Li

The tip of red giant branch (TRGB) stars have attracted intensive attention in recent years because their $I$-band absolute magnitudes, $M_\rm I$, are often used for distance calibration in the Hubble constant measurements because of its…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-10 Zhenzhen Shao , Shu Wang , Biwei Jiang , Xiaofeng Wang , Zhishuai Ge , Haichang Zhu

We introduce a modified detection method for measuring the luminosity of the tip of the red giant branch (TRGB) by introducing the composite magnitude T = I - beta [(V-I)_o - 1.50], where beta is the slope of the tip magnitude as a function…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 Barry F. Madore , Violet Mager , Wendy L. Freedman

The tip of the red giant (TRGB) is a standardizable candle and is identifiable as the discontinuity at the bright extreme of the red giant branch (RGB) stars in color-magnitude diagram (CMD) space. The TRGB-based distance method has been…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-12 Max J. B. Newman , Kristen B. W. McQuinn , Evan D. Skillman , Martha L. Boyer , Roger E. Cohen , Andrew E. Dolphin , O. Grace Telford

(Abridged) We have investigated the reliability of the widely used I-band Tip of the RGB relative distances for a sample of Local Group galaxies with complex Star Formation Histories (SFR) and Age Metallicity Relationships (AMR) namely the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Maurizio Salaris , Leo Girardi

The tip of the red giant branch (TRGB) allows for the measurement of precise and accurate distances to nearby galaxies, based on the brightest ascent of low-mass red giant branch stars before they undergo the helium flash. With the advent…

Accurate distances to galaxies can be determined from the luminosities of stars at the Tip of the Red Giant Branch (TRGB). We use a Maximum Likelihood algorithm to locate the TRGB in galaxy color-magnitude diagrams. The algorithm is…

The Tip of the Red Giant (TRGB) method provides one of the most accurate and precise means of measuring the distances to nearby galaxies. Here we present a VIJHK absolute calibration of the TRGB based on observations of TRGB stars in the…

The luminosity of the Tip of the Red Giant Branch (TRGB) is instrumental for the construction of the distance ladder, and its accurate modelling is key for determining the local Hubble parameter. In this work, we present an extensive…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-22 Ippocratis D. Saltas , Emanuele Tognelli

We present the I-band luminosity function of the red giant branch stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) using the data from the Magellanic Clouds Photometric Survey (Zaritsky, Harris & Thompson, 1997). Selecting stars in uncrowded,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Shoko Sakai , Dennis Zaritsky , Robert Kennicutt

In this paper, we extend the use of the tip of the red giant branch (TRGB) method to near-infrared wavelengths from previously-used $I$-band, using the \textit{Hubble Space Telescope (HST)} Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3). Upon calibration of a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-07-28 Po-Feng Wu , R. Brent Tully , Luca Rizzi , Andrew E. Dolphin , Bradley A. Jacobs , Igor D. Karachentsev

Given the recent successful launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, determining robust calibrations of the slopes and absolute magnitudes of the near- to mid-infrared Tip of the Red Giant Branch (TRGB) will be essential to measuring…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-11-10 Barry F. Madore , Wendy L. Freedman , Kayla Owens

The Tip of the Red Giant Branch (TRGB)-based distance method in the I band is one of the most efficient and precise techniques for measuring distances to nearby galaxies (D <= 15 Mpc). The TRGB in the near infrared (NIR) is 1 to 2…

We investigate the absolute calibration of the Tip of the Red Giant Branch (TRGB) in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) using small amplitude red giant stars (SARGs) classified by the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE). We show…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-22 Nolan W. Koblischke , Richard I. Anderson

Updated theoretical relations for the run of the bolometric and I magnitude of the Tip of the Red Giant Branch (TRGB) with respect to the metallicity are provided. An analogous relation for the V magnitude of the Zero Age Horizontal Branch…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Cassisi , M. Salaris
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