Reconciliation of the Surface Brightness Fluctuation and Type Ia Supernova Distance Scales [PDF]
The Astrophysical Journal, 2001 13 pages, 3 PostScript figures, LaTeX with AASTeX 5.02 and natbib.sty v7.0 (included).
John P. Blakeslee +5 more
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Stellar populations and surface brightness fluctuations: new observations and models [PDF]
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2001 24 pages with 17 embedded figures.
Edward A. Ajhar +2 more
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Connecting Infrared Surface Brightness Fluctuation Distances to Type Ia Supernova Hosts: Testing the Top Rung of the Distance Ladder [PDF]
The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 We compare infrared surface brightness fluctuation (IR SBF) distances measured in galaxies that have hosted type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) to distances estimated from SNe Ia light-curve fits.
Peter Garnavich +8 more
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A synthesis of data from fundamental plane and surface brightness fluctuation surveys [PDF]
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2001 We perform a series of comparisons between distance-independent photometric and spectroscopic properties used in the surface brightness fluctuations (SBF) and fundamental plane (FP) methods of early-type galaxy distance estimation. The data are taken from two recent surveys: the SBF Survey of Galaxy Distances and the Streaming Motions of Abell Clusters
John R. Lucey +5 more
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The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey (NGVS). III. A Catalog of Surface Brightness Fluctuation Distances and the Three-dimensional Distribution of Galaxies in the Virgo Cluster [PDF]
The Astrophysical JournalThe surface brightness fluctuation (SBF) method is a robust and efficient way of measuring distances to galaxies containing evolved stellar populations. Although many recent applications of the method have used space-based imaging, SBF remains a powerful
Michele Cantiello +12 more
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Extracting Galaxy Cluster Gas Inhomogeneity from X-ray Surface Brightness: A Statistical Approach and Application to Abell 3667 [PDF]
, 2008 Our previous analysis indicates that small-scale fluctuations in the intracluster medium (ICM) from cosmological hydrodynamic simulations follow the lognormal distribution.
Cavaliere A. +9 more
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K-band versus I-band Surface Brightness Fluctuations as distance indicators [PDF]
, 2001 We evaluate the method of optical and infrared Surface Brightness Fluctuations (SBF) as a distance indicator and its application on 8-m class telescopes, such as the Very Large Telescope (VLT).
Ajhar +44 more
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VLT Deep I-band Surface Brightness Fluctuations of IC 4296 [PDF]
Astron.Astrophys. 361 (2000) 68, 2000 From theoretical predictions, the introduction of 8-m class telescopes permits one to extend Surface Brightness Fluctuations measurements from the ground to ~7000 km/s, with a precision that is comparable to current space-based measurements. We have measured I--band SBF in IC 4296 in Abell 3565 cz~3630 km/s with the ESO Very Large Telescope.
S. Mei, David R. Silva, Édouard Belin
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Surface Brightness Fluctuations and the Stellar Population in Elliptical Galaxies [PDF]
Symposium - International Astronomical Union, 1995 The Surface Brightness Fluctuation (SBF) method introduced by Tonry & Schneider (1988) is known as a distance indicator. However, we focus on another aspect. Our aim is to obtain new information on the stellar population that constitutes an elliptical galaxy by comparing radial gradients in SBF magnitudes with traditional broad-band colours.
Bjarne Thomsen, Marianne Sodemann
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Chandra and XMM-Newton X-ray observations of AWM 7 - I: Investigating X-ray surface brightness fluctuations [PDF]
, 2011 We investigate the levels of small scale structure in surface brightness images of the core of the X-ray bright cool-core galaxy cluster AWM 7. After subtraction of a model of the smooth cluster emission, we find a number of approximately radial surface ...
A. C. Fabian +47 more
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