The Extragalactic Distance Scale: Proceedings of the st Sci May Symposium, Held in Baltimore, Maryland May 7-10, 1996

Space Telescope Science Institute Symposium/ Donahue, M. (Editor)/ Panagia, N. (Editor)

ISBN 10: 0521591643 / ISBN 13: 9780521591645

Published by Cambridge Univ Pr, 1997

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325 pages. 10.25x7.25x1.00 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Extragalactic Distance Scale: Proceedings of the st Sci May Symposium, Held in Baltimore, Maryland May 7-10, 1996
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521591643
• ISBN 13: 9780521591645
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.89 kilograms

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Synopsis

The hottest debate in astronomy and cosmology today is the value of the Hubble Constant that fixes the size and age of the Universe. At a workshop at the Space Telescope Science Institute, experts from around the world presented the latest results from a plethora of techniques for determining the Hubble Constant. The value has always been controversial, but for the first time at this meeting experts' results agreed, to within twenty percent. The articles in this book provide a comprehensive account of the Hubble Constant debate with the latest results from gravitational lensing, supernovae and novae, the Tully-Fisher relation, the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect, globular clusters, planetary nebulae, light echoes, and the Hubble Space Telescope Key Project. This timely volume will become a standard reference for graduate students and researchers in astronomy and cosmology.

Book Description

The hottest debate in astronomy today is the value of the Hubble constant which fixes the size and age of the Universe. At a workshop at the Space Telescope Science Institute, experts from around the world presented the latest results from a plethora of techniques for determining the Hubble constant.Based on the meeting, this book presents twenty-three specially written review chapters. They provide a comprehensive account of the Hubble constant debate with the latest results from gravitational lensing, and the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect, through to planetary nebulae and light echoes. This timely volume provides a standard reference for graduate students and researchers in astronomy and cosmology.