Arguments for a Hubble Constant nearH0 = 55
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Arguments for a Hubble Constant near H 0 = 55
Recent analyses of Cepheid distances to spiral galaxies have led to an announcement of a Hubble constant of H 0 = 72±8 km/sec/Mpc. The new Cepheid distances, however, show that there are numerous redshift distances with large excesses which cannot be due to peculiar velocities. Ignoring these discordant redshifts, if the Hubble constant is calibrated with Cepheid distances of low red-shift spir...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Astrophysical Journal
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0004-637X,1538-4357
DOI: 10.1086/340057