4 papers
A 1% distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud measured by population-II pulsating stars using Gaia Data Release 3
Bastian Lengen, Richard I. Anderson, Mauricio Cruz Reyes
Population-II pulsating stars provide a route to extragalactic distances that is independent of the classical Cepheid distance scale and complementary to geometric and tip-of-the-r…
Calibrating the Tip of the Red Giant Branch and measuring Magellanic Cloud distances to 2% exclusively with Gaia
Mauricio Cruz Reyes, Richard I. Anderson, Bastian Lengen
We have calibrated the Tip of the Red Giant Branch (TRGB) using our recent catalog of homogeneous, high-accuracy Globular Cluster (GC) distances. The GC distances were determined b…
The Local Distance Network: a community consensus report on the measurement of the Hubble constant at 1% precision
H0DN Collaboration, Stefano Casertano, Gagandeep Anand +35
The direct, empirical determination of the local value of the Hubble constant (H0) has markedly advanced thanks to improved instrumentation, measurement techniques, and distance es…
A joint 1% calibration of the RR Lyrae & type-II Cepheid Leavitt laws yields homogeneous distances to 93 Galactic globular clusters
Bastian Lengen, Richard I. Anderson, Mauricio Cruz Reyes +1
Recent work has established large samples of astrometrically confirmed RR Lyrae and type-II Cepheid members of Galactic globular clusters (GCs). Any given GC can contain multiple s…