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Article Contents
- TITLE PAGE
- 1.INTRODUCTION TO THE LECTURES
- 2.CEPHEIDS
- 3.BRIEF SUMMARY OF
THE OBSERVED PROPERTIES OF CEPHEID VARIABLES
- 4.SIMPLE PHYSICAL CONSIDERATIONS
- 5.OBSERVATIONAL CONSIDERATIONS
- - General Issues
- - Reddening
- - Metallicity Sensitivity
of the PL Relation
- 6.ADVANCES DRIVEN
BY NEW TECHNOLOGY
- - Application of Near-Infrared
Techniques
- 7.CCDs and MULTIWAVELENGTH
COVERAGE
- 8.OBTAINING ACCURATE
CEPHEID DISTANCES
- 9.LOCAL GROUP GALAXIES
- The Magellanic
Clouds
- - IC 1613
- - NGC 6822
- - M33
- - M31
- 10.BEYOND THE LOCAL GROUP
- - NGC 2403
- - M81
- - M101
- - NGC 300
- - NGC 247
- - WLM
- - IC 10
- - NGC 3109
- - Pegasus = DDO 216
- - Leo A = DDO 069
- - GRB = DDO 155
- - Sextans A and
Sextans B
- - NGC 2366
- - M83 (= NGC 5236),
IC 5152, and the Phoenix Dwarf
- - The Centaurus Group
- 11.THE HUBBLE CONSTANT
- 12.THE FUTURE
- 13.CONTRASTING ASPECTS
OF THE PL and PLC
- 14.A REDDENING-FREE
FORMULATION OF THE PL RELATION
- 15.COMMENTS ON REDDENING
DETERMINATIONS
- 16.COMPARISONS WITH
OTHER DISTANCE INDICATORS
- 17.THE KEY PROJECT
- - Goals
- - First Results
- 18.OTHER GROUND-BASED
WORK
- - Galactic Cluster
and LMC Calibration
- - Recent Ground-Based
Searches for Cepheids
- 19.HELIUM CORE FLASH
AND THE TIP OF THE RED GIANT BRANCH AS A PRIMARY DISTANCE INDICATOR
- - Introduction
- 20.THE IDEAL DISTANCE INDICATOR
- 21.SOME HISTORY CONCERNING THE
RED GIANT BRANCH
- 22.CONCERNS AND
TECHNICAL ISSUES
- - Detecting the Tip
- - Asymptotic Giant
Branch Stars
- - Red Supergiants
- - High-Metallicity
Populations
- - Crowding
- - Sufficient Signal
- - Background Galaxies
and Quasars
- - Cosmic Rays
- - RR Lyrae Distance
Scale
- 23.AN OVERVIEW OF THE
THEORETICAL UNDERPINNINGS: CORE HELIUM IGNITION
- 24.RECENT APPLICATIONS
OF THE TRGB METHOD
- - Ground-based Studies:
The Local Group
- - HST Applications:
Inside 10 Mpc
- 25.THE SCORECARD
- 26.CONCLUSIONS
- 27.IMPLICATIONS OF THE
HIPPARCOS OBSERVATIONS OF GALACTIC CEPHEIDS
- - Introduction
- 28.COMPARISON WITH V-BAND
PERIOD-LUMINOSITY RELATIONS
- 29.MULTIWAVELENGTH
PERIOD-LUMINOSITY RELATIONS
- 30.SUMMARY OF
HIPPARCOS RESULTS
- 31.IMPLICATIONS OF A
CEPHEID DISTANCE TO THE FORNAX CLUSTER
- - Introduction
- 32.NGC 1365 AND
THE FORNAX CLUSTER
- 33.HST OBSERVATIONS
- 34.CEPHEIDS IN NGC 1365
- 35.THE HUBBLE CONSTANT
- 36.THE HUBBLE CONSTANT
AT FORNAX
- - Uncertainties in
the Fornax Cluster Distance and Velocity
- 37.THE NEARBY FLOW FIELD
- 38.BEYOND FORNAX: THE
TULLY-FISHER RELATION
- 39.BEYOND FORNAX: OTHER
RELATIVE DISTANCE DETERMINATIONS
- 40.BEYOND FORNAX: TYPE
IA SUPERNOVAE
- 41.COSMOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS
- 42.CONCLUSIONS
- REFERENCES