ASTRO 735 - Reading list

List of papers in the literature that we will briefly discuss in class, organized by section. Students sign up to read a single paper (sometimes more than one student), and will help lead/summarize discussion of that paper.



H0

The Big Guns (a subset thereof): The Distance-Ladder Game

  • Aaronson et al. 1989, ApJ, 338, 654 - near-IR Tully-Fisher (flows, LSS) [Alejandro]
  • Sandage 1988, ApJ, 331, 583 - Malmquist bias in mag-limited samples (low Ho) [Aaron]
  • Mould et al. 2000, ApJ, 529, 786 - and other papers in the HST Key Project series)   [Soren]

Physical Methods:

  • Roberts et al. 1991, Nature, 352, 43 - time delay with quasar lensing;
    see also Blandford & Narayan 1992, ARAA, 30, 311   [Huirong, Elizabeth]
  • Tonry & Schneider 1988, AJ, 96, 807 - classic paper on surface brightness fluctuations   [Nathaniel]
  • Schmidt et al 1994, ApJ, 432, 42 - Type II SN expanding photosphere method (Baade-Wesselink);
    see also Schmidt et al. 1992, ApJ, 395 , 366   [Marta, Mark]
  • Myers et al. 1997 - Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect, 1997, ApJ, 485, 1 [Adam]

A good review: (for reference; not for student presentation)

  • Jacoby et al. 1992, PASP, 104, 599 - Review of many methods which give high Ho


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