Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2001-02-26
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
6 pages, 4 postscript figures, uses newpasp.sty (included), to appear in the proceedings of IAU Symposium 201: New Cosmologica
Scientific paper
We first discuss why there remains continuing, strong motivation to investigate Hubble's Constant. Then we review new evidence from an investigation of the Galactic Open Clusters containing Cepheids by Hoyle et al. that the metallicity dependence of the Cepheid P-L relation is stronger than expected. This result is supported by a new analysis of mainly HST Distance Scale Key Project data which shows a correlation between host galaxy metallicity and the rms scatter around the Cepheid P-L relation. If Cepheids do have a significant metallicity dependence then an already existing scale error for Tully-Fisher distances becomes worse and the distances of the Virgo and Fornax clusters extend to more than 20Mpc, decreasing the value of H_0. Finally, if the Cepheids have a metallicity dependence then so do Type Ia Supernovae since the metallicity corrected Cepheid distances to eight galaxies with SNIa now suggests that the SNIa peak luminosity is fainter in metal poor galaxies. As well as having important implications for H_0, this would also imply that the evidence for a non-zero cosmological constant from the SNIa Hubble Diagram may be subject to corrections for metallicity which are as big as the effects of cosmology.
Allen Paul D.
Hoyle Fiona
Shanks Tom
Tanvir Nial R.
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