To be published in Structure Formation in the Universe, July-August, 1999, Cambridge
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
THE HUBBLE CONSTANT
Historical Note
Extragalactic Distance Scale
Distance to LMC
``The Pleiades Problem''
Metallicity Effects in the LMC Cepheid
calibration
Red Clump
Detached Eclipsing Binaries
RR Lyr Problems
Conclusions on the LMC Distance
Age of Globular Clusters
Metallicity Problems with Cepheids
Cross-check of the Cepheid Distances
Tests with Geometric Methods
Further Checks for M31
Physical Methods
Expansion Photosphere Model (EPM) for Type
II supernovae
Gravitational Lensing Time Delay
Zeldovich-Sunyaev Effect
Physical Methods: Summary
Conclusions on H0
THE DENSITY PARAMETER
Model-Independent Determinations
Luminosity Density x < M/L >
H0 Versus Cosmic Age
Type Ia Supernova Hubble Diagram
Baryon Fractions
Peculiar Velocity - Density Relation
Model-Dependent Determinations
Shape Parameter of the Transfer Function
Evolution of the Rich Cluster Abundance
Cluster Abundance Versus the COBE
Normalisation
Power Spectrum in Nonlinear Galaxy
Clustering
CBR Anisotropy Harmonics
COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANT
Type Ia Supernova Hubble Diagram
Gravitational Lensing Frequencies for
Quasars
Harmonics of CBR Anisotropies
CONCLUSIONS
REFERENCES