Cepheid Calibration of the Peak Brightness of Type IA Supernovae: Calibration of SN 1990N in NGC 4639 Averaged with Six Earlier Type IA Supernova Calibrations to Give H 0 Directly

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Mar 1996

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Astrophysical Journal Letters v.460, p.L15

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

125

Stars: Variables: Cepheids, Galaxies: Individual Ngc Number: Ngc 4639, Cosmology: Distance Scale

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Periods and light curves have been measured with the Hubble Space Telescope for 20 Cepheids in NGC 4639, parent galaxy to the Type Ia, prototypical supernova SN 1990N. The periods range from 17 to 69 days. The mean apparent magnitudes, averaged over the light curves, range from = 25.6 to = 27.3. Well-determined period-luminosity relations exist in V and I. Corrected for differential extinction, these give a true modulus for NGC 4639 of (m - M)0 = 32.00 +/- 0.23. Combining the light curves for SN 1990N with this modulus gives MB(max) = -19.30 +/- 0.23 and MV(max) = -19.39 +/- 0.23. This, together with six previous calibrations of Type Ia supernovae, gives the mean calibrations of "Branch normal" supernovae to date as = -19.47 +/- 0.07 and = -19.48 +/- 0.07. The resulting Hubble constants, reading the Type Ia supernova Hubble diagrams at very large redshifts beyond any possible local velocity anomalies, give global values of the Hubble constant of H0(B) = 56 +/- 4 (internal) km s-1 Mpc-1 and H0(V) = 58 +/- 4 (internal) km s-1 Mpc-1.

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