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most citedTip of the Red Giant Branch Distances with JWST. II. I-band Measurements in a Sample of Hosts of 10 SN Ia Match HST Cepheids

17 citations · 34 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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astro-ph.GA2026

CHASE Spectral Survey I: Measuring Contamination in the Color-selected J-region Asymptotic Giant Branch Distance Indicator

Siyang Li, Alexei V. Filippenko, Arief Ahmad +11

The J-region asymptotic giant branch (JAGB) method for distance measurements uses the near uniform luminosity of carbon-rich AGB stars as a standard candle. Its application rests o…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 4 cited

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\…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 6 cited

The stellar evolution perspective on the metallicity dependence of classical Cepheid Leavitt laws

Saniya Khan, Richard I. Anderson, Sylvia Ekström +2

The impact of metallicity on the Cepheid Leavitt law (LL) and, in turn, the Hubble constant, has been the subject of much recent debate. Here, we present a comprehensive analysis o…

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★ 17 cited

Tip of the Red Giant Branch Distances with JWST. II. I-band Measurements in a Sample of Hosts of 10 SN Ia Match HST Cepheids

Siyang Li, Gagandeep S. Anand, Adam G. Riess +7

The Hubble Tension, a >5 sigma discrepancy between direct and indirect measurements of the Hubble constant (H0), has persisted for a decade and motivated intense scrutiny of the pa…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 1 cited

On Cepheid distances in the measurement

Richard I. Anderson

Classical Cepheids were the first stellar standard candles and have played a crucial role for astronomical distance measurements ever since the discovery of the Leavitt law (period…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 1 cited

JWST Observations Reject Unrecognized Crowding of Cepheid Photometry as an Explanation for the Hubble Tension at 8 sigma Confidence

Adam G. Riess, Gagandeep S. Anand, Wenlong Yuan +7

We present high-definition observations with the James Webb Space Telescope of >1000 Cepheids in a geometric anchor of the distance ladder, NGC4258, and in 5 hosts of 8 SNe~Ia, a f…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 2 cited

Tip of the Red Giant Branch Distances with JWST: An Absolute Calibration in NGC 4258 and First Applications to Type Ia Supernova Hosts

Gagandeep S. Anand, Adam G. Riess, Wenlong Yuan +12

The tip of the red giant branch (TRGB) allows for the measurement of precise and accurate distances to nearby galaxies, based on the brightest ascent of low-mass red giant branch s…