Deviations from the Local Hubble Flow. I. The Tip of the Red Giant Branch as a Distance Indicator

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2002-04-11

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0204192v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

AJ in Press, 54 pages, 30 figures, typos corrected, references added, postscript version with high resolution figures availabl

Scientific paper

10.1086/341168

The properties of the velocity field in the local volume (cz < 550 km/s) have been difficult to constrain due to a lack of a consistent set of galaxy distances. The sparse observations available to date suggest a remarkably quiet flow, with little deviation from a pure Hubble law. However, velocity field models based on the distribution of galaxies in the 1.2 Jy IRAS redshift survey, predict a quadrupolar flow pattern locally with strong infall at the poles of the local Supergalactic plane. We probe this velocity field and begin to establish a consistent set of galactic distances. We have obtained images of nearby galaxies in the I and V band from the W.M. Keck Observatory and in F814W and F555W filters from the Hubble Space Telescope. Where these galaxies are well resolved into stars we may use the Tip of the Red Giant Branch (TRGB) as a distance indicator. Using a maximum likelihood analysis to quantitatively measure the I magnitude of the TRGB we determine precise distances to seven nearby galaxies: Leo I, Sextans B, NGC 1313, NGC 3109, UGC 03755, UGC 06456, and UGC 07577.

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