Chapter 2. The Extragalactic Distance Scale
- 2.1. Overview
- 2.2. Possible Kinds of Cosmological
Models
- 2.3. Establishing the Extragalactic
Distance Scale
- 2.3.1. The First Rung: Calibrating
the Main Sequence Luminosities of Stars via Stellar Parallax
- 2.3.2. The Second Rung: Distances
to stellar clusters
- 2.3.3. The Third Rung: Determining
the Zeropoints of Standard Candles
- 2.3.4. Distances to Local Group
Galaxies
- 2.3.5. Extragalactic Distance
Indicators
- 2.3.6. The Distance to the Virgo
Cluster
- 2.3.7. Correction for Bias in
Extragalactic Samples
- 2.3.8. Hubble Space Telescope
Distance Estimates to Virgo
- 2.3.9. Summary of Virgo Distance
Estimates
- 2.3.10. Direct Astrophysical
Distance Measurements