Volume 341, Issue 1

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September 2012

THE FUNDAMENTAL COSMIC DISTANCE SCALE: STATE OF THE ART AND THE GAIA PERSSPECTIVE

Issue Editors:

Marcella Marconi,
Gisella Clementini,
Enzo Brocato

24 articles in this issue

The fundamental cosmic distance scale: state of the art and the Gaia perspective
Michael A. Dopita
Marcella Marconi
Enzo Brocato
Editorial 02 August 2012 Pages: 1 - 2
Allan Sandage and the cosmic expansion
G. A. Tammann
B. Reindl
Original Article 08 February 2012 Pages: 3 - 14
Building the cosmic distance scale: from Hipparcos to Gaia
Catherine Turon
Xavier Luri
Eduard Masana
Original Article 09 March 2012 Pages: 15 - 29
Science performance of Gaia, ESA’s space-astrometry mission
J. H. J. de Bruijne
Original Article 10 March 2012 Pages: 31 - 41
The Large Magellanic Cloud and the distance scale
Alistair R. Walker
Original Article 21 December 2011 Pages: 43 - 49
Preliminary results for RR Lyrae stars and Classical Cepheids from the Vista Magellanic Cloud (VMC) survey
V. Ripepi
M. I. Moretti
P. Tisserand
Original Article 10 March 2012 Pages: 51 - 56
First results from the POMME survey of M31
J. Fliri
D. Valls-Gabaud
Original Article 08 May 2012 Pages: 57 - 64
Distance indicators from colour-magnitude-diagrams: main sequence, red clump and tip of the RGB
Maurizio Salaris
Original Article 02 December 2011 Pages: 65 - 75
RR Lyrae stars and their distances
Filippina Caputo
Original Article 03 January 2012 Pages: 77 - 82
A Bayesian approach to calibrating period-luminosity relations of RR Lyrae stars in the mid-infrared
Christopher R. Klein
Joseph W. Richards
Joshua S. Bloom
Original Article 21 March 2012 Pages: 83 - 87
Metal abundance calibration of the Ca(II) triplet lines in RR Lyrae stars
George Wallerstein
Thomas Gomez
Wenjin Huang
Original Article 09 March 2012 Pages: 89 - 92
A discussion on metallicity effects on the period-luminosity relations of Cepheids and Miras
Noriyuki Matsunaga
Original Article 04 May 2012 Pages: 93 - 98
Problems and possibilities in fine-tuning of the Cepheid P-L relationship
L. Szabados
P. Klagyivik
Original Article 17 January 2012 Pages: 99 - 104
Period-luminosity relations for Cepheid variables: from mid-infrared to multi-phase
Chow-Choong Ngeow
Shashi M. Kanbur
Ya-Hong Lin
Original Article 10 March 2012 Pages: 105 - 113
Calibrating the Cepheid Period-Luminosity relation from the near-infrared surface brightness technique
Jesper Storm
Nicolas Nardetto
Thomas G. Barnes
Original Article 04 April 2012 Pages: 115 - 121
Asymptotic Giant Branch variables in the Galaxy and the Local Group
Patricia A. Whitelock
Original Article 01 February 2012 Pages: 123 - 129
Distances to galaxies from the brightest stars in the Universe
Rolf-Peter Kudritzki
Miguel A. Urbaneja
Original Article Open access 10 March 2012 Pages: 131 - 142
Ultra long period Cepheids: a primary standard candle out to the Hubble flow
G. Fiorentino
G. Clementini
R. van der Marel
Original Article 24 March 2012 Pages: 143 - 150
The Planetary Nebula Luminosity Function at the dawn of Gaia
Robin Ciardullo
Original Article 04 April 2012 Pages: 151 - 161
Supernovae and Gaia
Giuseppe Altavilla
Maria Teresa Botticella
Massimo Turatto
Original Article 10 March 2012 Pages: 163 - 178
Surface brightness fluctuations as primary and secondary distance indicators
John P. Blakeslee
Original Article 31 January 2012 Pages: 179 - 186
Optical observations of bright elliptical galaxies in the Virgo cluster: stellar population and distance analysis
Michele Cantiello
Original Article 20 January 2012 Pages: 187 - 194
Globular cluster luminosity function as distance indicator
M. Rejkuba
Original Article 20 January 2012 Pages: 195 - 206
Standard candles from the Gaia perspective
Laurent Eyer
Lovro Palaversa
Gisella Clementini
Invited review 08 February 2012 Pages: 207 - 214

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