Tests of the Long and Short Extragalactic Distance Scales

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Jun 1993

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Volume 90, Issue 11, pp. 4811-4813

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Distances on the short and long scales of 12 nearby galaxies, one group, and three clusters are compared with recent estimates by independent methods and researchers. All comparisons show a close agreement [within 0.3 magnitude (mag) in the distance modulus (DM)] between the short-scale moduli and the new estimates by others at all distances from the Large Magellanic Cloud [Δ (distance) = 0.05 megaparsec (Mpc); 1 pc = 3.09 x 1016 m] to the Coma cluster (Δ = 83 Mpc). The mean systematic difference (short - others) is only -0.04 mag with no evidence for a significant Malmquist bias in the short scale. The long scale differs systematically from all the others by about +0.25 mag within the Local Group (DM < 26) and by +1.1 outside (26 < DM < 35). Accidental errors are also much larger in the long-scale moduli (0.5 mag) than in the other two scales (0.1 mag). The mean value of the Hubble expansion ratio for the test objects is < H> = 86 ± 1 km\cdotsec-1\cdot Mpc-1.

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