Tests of the Tully-Fisher Relation Using Cepheids and SNIa

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Dec 1998

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American Astronomical Society, 193rd AAS Meeting, #21.02; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 30, p.1281

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We make a direct test of Tully-Fisher distance estimates to twelve spiral galaxies with HST Cepheid distances and to twelve spiral galaxies with SNIa distances. The HST Cepheid distances come from the work of Freedman et al (1997), Sandage et al (1996) and Tanvir et al (1995). The SNIa distances come from Pierce (1994), calibrated using the Cepheid results of Sandage et al (1996). The Tully-Fisher distances mostly come from the work of Pierce (1994). The results show that the Tully-Fisher distance moduli are too short with respect to the Cepheid distances by 0.46+/-0.14mag and too short with respect to the SNIa distances by 0.46+/-0.19mag. Combining the HST Cepheid and SNIa data suggests that, overall, previous Tully-Fisher distances were too short by 0.46+/-0.11mag, a result which is significant at the 4sigma level. These data therefore indicate that previous Tully-Fisher distances should be revised upwards by 24+/-6 distance of 19.3+/-1.9Mpc. The value of H_o from Tully-Fisher estimates is correspondingly revised downwards from H_o=84+/-10 to Ho=68+/-8. Further downward revisions of H_o are possible if it proves that it is Malmquist bias in the TF distance estimates that is causing this discrepancy.

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