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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 474, Issue 1, Pages 1250-1276Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx2710
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H II regions; galaxies: star formation; distance scale; cosmology: observations
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- Mexican Research Council (CONACYT) [262132]
- CONACYT [CB-2008-103365, CB-2010-155046, 277187]
- CNPq Ciencia sem Fronteiras grant at the Observatorio Nacional in Rio de Janeiro
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The relationship between the integrated H beta line luminosity and the velocity dispersion of the ionized gas of H II galaxies and giant H II regions represents an exciting standard candle that presently can be used up to redshifts z similar to 4. Locally it is used to obtain precise measurements of the Hubble constant by combining the slope of the relation obtained from nearby (z <= 0.2) H II galaxies with the zero-point determined from giant H II regions belonging to an 'anchor sample' of galaxies for which accurate redshift-independent distance moduli are available. We present new data for 36 giant H II regions in 13 galaxies of the anchor sample that includes the megamaser galaxy NGC 4258. Our data are the result of the first 4 yr of observation of our primary sample of 130 giant H II regions in 73 galaxies with Cepheid determined distances. Our best estimate of the Hubble parameter is 71.0 +/- 2.8(random) +/- 2.1(systematic) kms(-1) Mpc(-1). This result is the product of an independent approach and, although at present less precise than the latest SNIa results, it is amenable to substantial improvement.
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