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Breaking the AGB Color Degeneracy with Variability and HO: A Consistent Picture of AGB Chemistry, Dust, and the J-Region Across Environments
Caroline D. Huang, Massimo Marengo, Antonio Capodagli +7
Resolved asymptotic giant branch (AGB) populations present many observational puzzles. We consider three often treated separately: photometric C/O classification boundaries must be…
Forward-modelling Milky Way Cepheids: selection effects and physical priors in the Gaia-HST calibration
Richard Stiskalek, Adam Riess, Harry Desmond +2
The advent of high-precision Gaia parallaxes for Milky Way Cepheids enables per cent-level calibration of the local distance ladder and the Hubble constant . We revisit the Mi…
Blue supergiants in the Pinwheel Galaxy M101: comparison with H II region chemical abundances, spectroscopic distance and an independent determination of the Hubble constant
Fabio Bresolin, Rolf-Peter Kudritzki, Miguel A. Urbaneja +2
We present a quantitative spectroscopic study of 13 blue supergiant stars in the Pinwheel Galaxy M101, based on data obtained with the Low Resolution Imaging Spectrometer available…
Absolute Calibration of Cluster Mira Variables to Provide a New Anchor for the Hubble Constant Determination
Anupam Bhardwaj, Noriyuki Matsunaga, Caroline D. Huang +2
Mira variables in globular clusters can provide an accurate and precise absolute calibration of their period-luminosity relations (PLRs) to independently anchor the cosmic distance…
Converging on the Cepheid Metallicity Dependence: Implications of Non-Standard Gaia Parallax Recalibration on Distance Measures
Louise Breuval, Gagandeep S. Anand, Richard I. Anderson +20
By comparing Cepheid brightnesses with geometric distance measures including Gaia EDR3 parallaxes, most recent analyses conclude metal-rich Cepheids are brighter, quantified as $γ\…
The Hubble constant anchor galaxy NGC 4258: metallicity and distance from blue supergiants
Rolf-Peter Kudritzki, Miguel A. Urbaneja, Fabio Bresolin +5
A quantitative spectroscopic study of blue supergiant stars in the Hubble constant anchor galaxy NGC 4258 is presented. The non-LTE analysis of Keck I telescope LRIS spectra yields…
Standardized Luminosity of the Tip of the Red Giant Branch utilizing Multiple Fields in NGC 4258 and the CATs Algorithm
Siyang Li, Adam G. Riess, Dan Scolnic +6
The Tip of the Red Giant Branch provides a luminous standard candle for calibrating distance ladders that reach Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) hosts. However, recent work reveals that t…
A Gaia Data Release 3 View on the Tip of the Red Giant Branch Luminosity
Siyang Li, Stefano Casertano, Adam G. Riess
The tip of the red giant branch (TRGB) is a standard candle that can be used to help refine the determination of the Hubble constant. Data Release 3 (DR3) provides synthetic…
The Cepheid Distance to the Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 Galaxy NGC 4051
Wenlong Yuan, Lucas M. Macri, Bradley M. Peterson +15
We derive a distance of ~Mpc (~mag) to the archetypal narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 4051 based on Cepheid Period--Luminosity relations and new…
The Cepheid Distance to the Seyfert 1 Galaxy NGC 4151
Wenlong Yuan, Michael M. Fausnaugh, Samantha L. Hoffmann +15
We derive a distance of Mpc to the archetypical Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 4151 based on the near-infrared Cepheid Period-Luminosity relation and new Hubble Space Telescope…
An Improved Distance to NGC 4258 and its Implications for the Hubble Constant
M. J. Reid, D. W. Pesce, A. G. Riess
NGC 4258 is a critical galaxy for establishing the extragalactic distance scale and estimating the Hubble constant (Ho). Water masers in the nucleus of the galaxy orbit about its s…
Two Peculiar Fast Transients in a Strongly Lensed Host Galaxy
S. A. Rodney, I. Balestra, M. Bradac +32
A massive galaxy cluster can serve as a magnifying glass for distant stellar populations, with strong gravitational lensing exposing details in the lensed background galaxies that…