Accurate distances to Galactic globular clusters through a combination of Gaia EDR3, HST, and literature data

H Baumgardt, E Vasiliev - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
We have derived accurate distances to Galactic globular clusters by combining data from the
Gaia Early Data Release 3 (EDR3) with distances based on Hubble Space Telescope (HST) …

Progress in direct measurements of the Hubble constant

WL Freedman, BF Madore - Journal of Cosmology and …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
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 …

Old-aged primary distance indicators

RL Beaton, G Bono, VF Braga, M Dall'Ora… - Space Science …, 2018 - Springer
Old-aged stellar distance indicators are present in all Galactic structures (halo, bulge, disk)
and in galaxies of all Hubble types and, thus, are immensely powerful tools for …

The parallax of ω Centauri measured from Gaia EDR3 and a direct, geometric calibration of the tip of the red giant branch and the Hubble constant

J Soltis, S Casertano, AG Riess - The Astrophysical Journal …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We use data from the ESA Gaia mission Early Data Release 3 (EDR3) to measure the
trigonometric parallax of ω Cen, the first high-precision parallax measurement for the most …

High-precision distance measurements with classical pulsating stars

A Bhardwaj - Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Classical Cepheid and RR Lyrae variables are radially pulsating stars that trace
young and old-age stellar populations, respectively. These classical pulsating stars are the …

The ages of 55 globular clusters as determined using an improved method along with color–magnitude diagram constraints, and their implications for broader issues

DA VandenBerg, K Brogaard, R Leaman… - The Astrophysical …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
Ages have been derived for 55 globular clusters (GCs) for which Hubble Space Telescope
Advanced Camera for Surveys photometry is publicly available. For most of them, the …

The solar neighborhood. xxxvii. the mass–luminosity relation for main-sequence m dwarfs

GF Benedict, TJ Henry, OG Franz… - The Astronomical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a mass–luminosity relation (MLR) for red dwarfs spanning a range of masses
from 0.62${{\mathcal M}} _ {\odot} $ to the end of the stellar main sequence at …

Machine-learned identification of RR Lyrae stars from sparse, multi-band data: the PS1 sample

B Sesar, N Hernitschek, S Mitrović, Ž Ivezić… - The Astronomical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Machine-learned Identification of RR Lyrae Stars from Sparse, Multi-band Data: The PS1
Sample - IOPscience This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this site you agree to our use …

Probing the Outer Galactic Halo with RR Lyrae from the Catalina Surveys

AJ Drake, M Catelan, SG Djorgovski… - The Astrophysical …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
We present analysis of 12,227 type-ab RR Lyraes (RRLs) found among the 200 million
public light curves in Catalina Surveys Data Release 1. These stars span the largest volume …

RR Lyrae stars as standard candles in the Gaia Data Release 2 Era

T Muraveva, HE Delgado, G Clementini… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
We present results from the analysis of 401 RR Lyrae stars (RRLs) belonging to the field of
the Milky Way (MW). For a fraction of them multiband (V, K s, W 1) photometry, metal …