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A Cepheid Distance to the Fornax Cluster
B. F. Madore, W. L. Freedman, N. Silbermann +13
The Hubble Space Telescope is being used to measure accurate Cepheid distances to nearby galaxies with the ultimate aim of determining the Hubble constant, H_0. For the first time,…
astro-ph1998
The Hubble Space Telescope Key Project to Measure the Hubble Constant
Wendy L. Freedman, Jeremy R. Mould, Robert C. Kennicutt +1
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…