J/other/A+ARV/15.289     Distances of local galaxies          (Tammann+, 2008)

The expansion field: the value of H0. Tammann G.A., Sandage A., Reindl B. <Astron. Astrophys. Rev., 15, 289-331 (2008)> =2008A&ARv..15..289T 2008A&ARv..15..289T
ADC_Keywords: Galaxy catalogs ; Stars, distances ; Radial velocities Keywords: stars: population II - Cepheids - supernovae: general - distance scale - cosmological parameters Abstract: Any calibration of the present value of the Hubble constant (H0) requires recession velocities and distances of galaxies. While the conversion of observed velocities into true recession velocities has only a small effect on the result, the derivation of unbiased distances which rest on a solid zero point and cover a useful range of about 4-30Mpc is crucial. A list of 279 such galaxy distances within v<2000km/s is given which are derived from the tip of the red-giant branch (TRGB), from Cepheids, and/or from supernovae of type Ia (SNe Ia). File Summary: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FileName Lrecl Records Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ReadMe 80 . This file table1.dat 73 279 High accuracy distances of local galaxies refs.dat 89 27 References -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Byte-by-byte Description of file: table1.dat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1- 11 A11 --- Name Galaxy name 13- 17 A5 --- Group Group of the galaxy 20- 23 I4 km/s HRV ? Heliocentric radial velocity 25- 28 I4 km/s v220 ? Velocity corrected for Virgocentric infall 30- 34 F5.2 mag mu0(R) ? Distance modulus, corrected for Galactic absorption, from RR Lyrae 35 A1 --- u_mu0(R) Uncertainty flag on mu0RRLyr 36- 40 F5.2 mag mu0(G) ? Distance modulus, corrected for Galactic absorption, from tip of the red-giant branch 42- 46 F5.2 mag mu0(C) ? Distance modulus, corrected for Galactic absorption, from classical Cepheids 48- 52 F5.2 mag mu0(S) ? Distance modulus, corrected for Galactic absorption, from type Ia supernovae 53 A1 --- u_mu0(S) [)] Uncertainty flag on mu0SNe 54- 58 F5.2 mag ? Mean distance modulus corrected for Galactic absorption 60- 64 F5.2 mag ? Mean distance modulus reduced to the barycenter of the Local Group (assumed to be at 0.53Mpc in the direction of M31) 66- 73 A8 --- Ref References, in refs.dat file -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Byte-by-byte Description of file: refs.dat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1- 2 I2 --- Ref Reference number 4- 22 A19 --- BibCode BibCode 24- 50 A27 --- Aut Author's name 52- 89 A38 --- Com Comments -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- History: From electronic version of the journal
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