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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 932, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac68df
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- Space Telescope Science Institute [SNAP15922]
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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The tip of the red giant branch has been used to measure distances to 500 nearby galaxies with the Hubble Space Telescope. By modeling the observed luminosity function of red giant branch and asymptotic giant branch stars, accurate distances of the hosts can be obtained. This method can be applied to measure the rate of cosmic expansion.
The tip of the red giant branch has been used to measure distances to 500 nearby galaxies with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) which are available in the Color-Magnitude Diagrams and Tip of the Red Giant Branch (CMDs/TRGB) catalog on the Extragalactic Distance Database (EDD). Our established methods are employed to perform an independent reduction of the targets presented by the Carnegie-Chicago Hubble Program (CCHP) in the series of papers culminating in Freedman (2021). Our distinct methodology involves modeling the observed luminosity function of red giant branch and asymptotic giant branch stars, which differs from the edge-detection algorithms employed by the CCHP. We find excellent agreement between distances for 11 hosts with new imaging, all at D < 20 Mpc. However, we are unable to measure the TRGB for four hosts that use archival data designed to measure distances with Cepheids, all at D > 23 Mpc. With two new HST observations taken in the halo of the megamaser host NGC 4258, the first with the same ACS F606W and F814W filters and state of the electronics used for SN Ia hosts, we then calibrate our TRGB distance scale to the geometric megamaser distance. Using our TRGB distances, we find a value of the Hubble Constant of H (0) = 71.5 +/- 1.8 km s(-1) Mpc(-1) when using either the Pantheon or Carnegie Supernova Project (CSP) samples of supernovae. In the future, the James Webb Space Telescope will extend measurements of the TRGB to additional hosts of SN Ia and surface-brightness fluctuation measurements for separate paths to H (0).
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