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Article Contents

TITLE PAGE

1.INTRODUCTION

2.THE HUBBLE CONSTANT

2.1.Historical Note

2.2.Extragalactic Distance Scale

2.3.Distance to LMC

2.3.1.``The Pleiades Problem''

2.3.2.Metallicity Effects in the LMC Cepheid calibration

2.3.3.Red Clump

2.3.4.Detached Eclipsing Binaries

2.3.5.RR Lyr Problems

2.3.6.Conclusions on the LMC Distance

2.3.7.Age of Globular Clusters

2.4.Metallicity Problems with Cepheids

2.5.Cross-check of the Cepheid Distances

2.5.1.Tests with Geometric Methods

2.5.2.Further Checks for M31

2.6.Physical Methods

2.6.1.Expansion Photosphere Model (EPM) for Type II supernovae

2.6.2.Gravitational Lensing Time Delay

2.6.3.Zeldovich-Sunyaev Effect

2.6.4.Physical Methods: Summary

2.7.Conclusions on H₀

3. THE DENSITY PARAMETER

3.1.Model-Independent Determinations

3.1.1.Luminosity Density x < M/L >

3.1.2.H₀ Versus Cosmic Age

3.1.3.Type Ia Supernova Hubble Diagram

3.1.4.Baryon Fractions

3.1.5.Peculiar Velocity - Density Relation

3.2.Model-Dependent Determinations

3.2.1.Shape Parameter of the Transfer Function

3.2.2.Evolution of the Rich Cluster Abundance

3.2.3.Cluster Abundance Versus the COBE Normalisation

3.2.4.Power Spectrum in Nonlinear Galaxy Clustering

3.2.5.CBR Anisotropy Harmonics

4.COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANT

4.1.Type Ia Supernova Hubble Diagram

4.2.Gravitational Lensing Frequencies for Quasars

4.3.Harmonics of CBR Anisotropies

5.CONCLUSIONS

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