The Discovery of Cepheids and a Distance to NGC 5128

Laura Ferrarese, Jeremy R. Mould, Peter B. Stetson +3

We discuss a new distance to NGC 5128 (Centaurus A) based on Cepheid variables observed with the Hubble Space Telescope. Twelve F555W (V) and six F814W (I) epochs of cosmic-ray-spl…