A Determination of the Hubble Constant from Cepheid Distances and a Model of the Local Peculiar Velocity Field

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2000-05-06

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0005112v2

Astrophys.J.548:564-584,2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

33 pages, 8 embedded figures. New table, 5 new references, text revisions

Scientific paper

10.1086/319005

We present a measurement of the Hubble Constant based on Cepheid distances to 27 galaxies within 20 Mpc. We take the Cepheid data from published measurements by the Hubble Telescope Key Project on the Distance Scale (H0KP). We calibrate the Cepheid Period-Luminosity (PL) relation with data from over 700 Cepheids in the LMC obtained by the OGLE collaboration; we assume an LMC distance modulus of 18.50 mag (d=50.1 kpc). Using this PL calibration we obtain new distances to the H0KP galaxies. We correct the redshifts of these galaxies for peculiar velocities using two distinct velocity field models: the phenomenological model of Tonry et al. and a model based on the IRAS density field and linear gravitational instability theory. We combine the Cepheid distances with the corrected redshifts for the 27 galaxies to derive H_0, the Hubble constant. The results are H_0 = 85 +/- 5 km/s/Mpc (random error) at 95% confidence when the IRAS model is used, and 92 +/- 5 km/s/Mpc when the phenomenological model is used. The IRAS model is a better fit to the data and the Hubble constant it returns is more reliable. Systematic error stems mainly from LMC distance uncertainty which is not directly addressed by this paper. Our value of H_0 is significantly larger than that quoted by the H0KP, H_0 = 71 +/- 6 km/s/Mpc. Cepheid recalibration explains ~30% of this difference, velocity field analysis accounts for ~70%. We discuss in detail possible reasons for this discrepancy and future study needed to resolve it.

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