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most citedMilky Way Cepheid Standards for Measuring Cosmic Distances and Application to Gaia DR2: Implications for the Hubble Constant

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astro-ph.SR2024

Radial Velocity and Astrometric Evidence for a Close Companion to Betelgeuse

Morgan MacLeod, Sarah Blunt, Robert J. De Rosa +10

We examine a century of radial velocity, visual magnitude, and astrometric observations of the nearest red supergiant, Betelgeuse, in order to reexamine the century-old assertion t…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 3 cited

JWST Validates HST Distance Measurements: Selection of Supernova Subsample Explains Differences in JWST Estimates of Local H0

Adam G. Riess, Dan Scolnic, Gagandeep S. Anand +16

JWST provides new opportunities to cross-check the HST Cepheid/SNeIa distance ladder, which yields the most precise local measure of H0. We analyze early JWST subsamples (~1/4 of t…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 42 cited

Reconnaissance with JWST of the J-region Asymptotic Giant Branch in Distance Ladder Galaxies: From Irregular Luminosity Functions to Approximation of the Hubble Constant

Siyang Li, Adam G. Riess, Stefano Casertano +5

We study stars in the J-regions of the asymptotic giant branch (JAGB) of near-infrared color magnitude diagrams in the maser host NGC 4258 and 4 hosts of 6 Type Ia supernovae (SN I…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 42 cited

The Mira Distance to M101 and a 4% Measurement of H0

Caroline D. Huang, Wenlong Yuan, Adam G. Riess +8

The giant spiral galaxy M101 is host to the nearest recent Type Ia Supernova (SN 2011fe) and thus has been extensively monitored in the near-infrared to study the late-time lightcu…

astro-ph.CO2024

The Mira Distance Ladder

Caroline D. Huang

Here we provide a review of Mira variables, their basic properties, and Period-Luminosity Relations with an emphasis on their role in measuring the Hubble Constant. The usage of mu…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 2 cited

NANCY: Next-generation All-sky Near-infrared Community surveY

Jiwon Jesse Han, Arjun Dey, Adrian M. Price-Whelan +206

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is capable of delivering an unprecedented all-sky, high-spatial resolution, multi-epoch infrared map to the astronomical community. This oppor…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 2 cited

Left Ringing: Betelgeuse Illuminates the Connection Between Convective outbursts, Mode switching, and Mass Ejection in Red Supergiants

Morgan MacLeod, Andrea Antoni, Caroline D. Huang +2

Betelgeuse, the nearest red supergiant, dimmed to an unprecedented level in early 2020. The star emerged from this Great Dimming episode with its typical, roughly 400-day pulsation…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 7 cited

Shocks and Photoionization of the Inner 650 AU Jet of the Interacting Binary Star R Aquarii from Multiwavelength Hubble Space Telescope Observations

Caroline D. Huang, Margarita Karovska, Warren Hack +3

Astrophysical jets are present in a range of environments, including young stellar objects, X-ray binaries, and active galactic nuclei, but their formation is still not fully under…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 21 cited

Absolute Calibration of Cepheid Period-Luminosity Relations in NGC 4258

Wenlong Yuan, Lucas M. Macri, Adam G. Riess +6

NGC 4258 is one of the most important anchors for calibrating the Cepheid period--luminosity relations (PLRs) owing to its accurate distance measured from water maser motions. We e…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 204 cited

Hubble Space Telescope Observations of Mira Variables in the Type Ia Supernova Host NGC 1559: An Alternative Candle to Measure the Hubble Constant

Caroline D. Huang, Adam G. Riess, Wenlong Yuan +7

We present year-long, near-infrared Hubble Space Telescope WFC3 observations used to search for Mira variables in NGC 1559, the host galaxy of the Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) 2005df.…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 616 cited

Milky Way Cepheid Standards for Measuring Cosmic Distances and Application to Gaia DR2: Implications for the Hubble Constant

Adam G. Riess, Stefano Casertano, Wenlong Yuan +9

We present HST photometry of a selected sample of 50 long-period, low-extinction Milky Way Cepheids measured on the same WFC3 F555W, F814W, and F160W-band photometric system as ext…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 76 cited

A Near-Infrared Period-Luminosity Relation for Miras in NGC 4258, an Anchor for a New Distance Ladder

Caroline D. Huang, Adam G. Riess, Samantha L. Hoffmann +8

We present year-long, near-infrared Hubble Space Telescope WFC3 observations of Mira variables in the water megamaser host galaxy NGC 4258. Miras are AGB variables that can be divi…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 31 cited

The Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS): 38 GHz detector array of bolometric polarimeters

John W. Appel, Aamir Ali, Mandana Amiri +41

The Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) experiment aims to map the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) at angular scales larger than a few degrees. Ope…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 159 cited

CLASS: The Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor

Thomas Essinger-Hileman, Aamir Ali, Mandana Amiri +41

The Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) is an experiment to measure the signature of a gravita-tional-wave background from inflation in the polarization of the cosmic mi…