Cosmic distances from surface brightness fluctuations [PDF]
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, 2012 AbstractHigh spatial-resolution measurements of surface brightness fluctuations (SBFs) with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) provide the most precise distances available to early-type galaxies beyond the Local Group. The observable SBF magnitude in a given bandpass is a basic property of any stellar system, corresponding to a ratio of the first and ...
John P. Blakeslee
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Inferences from Surface Brightness Fluctuations of Zwicky 3146 via the Sunyaev–Zel’dovich Effect and X-Ray Observations [PDF]
Astrophysical Journal, 2023 The galaxy cluster Zwicky 3146 is a sloshing cool-core cluster at z = 0.291 that in Sunyaev–Zel’dovich (SZ) imaging does not appear to exhibit significant pressure substructure in the intracluster medium.
C. Romero +18 more
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Power spectrum estimation methods on intracluster medium surface brightness fluctuations [PDF]
EPJ Web of Conferences, 2023 Accurate estimation of galaxy cluster masses is a central problem in cosmology. Turbulence is believed to introduce significant deviations from the hydrostatic mass estimates.
Mark D. Bishop +3 more
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The Distance to the Coma Cluster from Surface Brightness Fluctuations
The Astrophysical Journal, 1997 We report on the first determination of the distance to the Coma Cluster based on surface brightness fluctuation (SBF) measurements obtained from Hubble Space Telescope WFPC2 observations of the bright E0 galaxy NGC 4881 in the Coma Cluster and ground ...
Bjarne Thomsen +7 more
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Can AGN and galaxy clusters explain the surface brightness fluctuations of the cosmic X-ray background? [PDF]
, 2016 Fluctuations of the surface brightness of cosmic X-ray background (CXB) carry unique information about faint and low luminosity source populations, which is inaccessible for conventional large-scale structure (LSS) studies based on resolved sources.
Gilfanov, Marat +3 more
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The ACS Virgo Cluster Survey. IV. Data Reduction Procedures for Surface Brightness Fluctuation Measurements with the Advanced Camera for Surveys [PDF]
, 2005 The Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) Virgo Cluster Survey is a large program to image 100 early-type Virgo galaxies using the F475W and F850LP bandpasses of the Wide Field Channel of the ACS instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). The scientific
S. Mei +9 more
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Distance Measurements and Stellar Population Properties via Surface Brightness Fluctuations [PDF]
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 2012 Surface Brightness Fluctuations (SBFs) are one of the most powerful techniques to measure the distance and to constrain the unresolved stellar content of extragalactic systems.
Fritz, Alexander
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Surface brightness fluctuations, tracers of stellar mass-loss? [PDF]
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, 2009 AbstractWe present optical and IR integrated colors and SBF magnitudes, computed from stellar population synthesis models that include emission from the dusty envelopes surrounding mass-loosing TP-AGB stars. We explore the effects of varying the mass-loss rate by one order of magnitude around the fiducial value, modifying accordingly both the stellar ...
Rosa A. González‐Lópezlira +4 more
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The Surface Brightness Fluctuation Survey of Galaxy Distances. II. Local and Large‐Scale Flows [PDF]
, 2000 We present results from the Surface Brightness Fluctuation (SBF) Survey for the distances to 300 early-type galaxies, of which approximately half are ellipticals.
J. Tonry +3 more
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, 2017 We study the surface brightness fluctuations of the cosmic X-ray background (CXB) using Chandra data of XBOOTES. After masking out resolved sources we compute the power spectrum of fluctuations of the unresolved CXB for angular scales from ~2 arcsec to ...
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