Infrared Surface Brightness Fluctuation Distances for MASSIVE and Type Ia Supernova Host Galaxies

Joseph B Jensen; John P Blakeslee; Chung-Pei Ma; Peter A Milne; Peter J Brown; Michele Cantiello; Peter M Garnavich; Jenny E Greene; John R Lucey; Anh Phan; Brent R Tully; Charlotte Wood

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Infrared Surface Brightness Fluctuation Distances for MASSIVE and Type Ia Supernova Host Galaxies

Joseph B Jensen, John P Blakeslee, Chung-Pei Ma, Peter A Milne, Peter J Brown, Michele Cantiello, Peter M Garnavich, Jenny E Greene, John R Lucey, Anh Phan, Brent R Tully, Charlotte Wood

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We measured high-quality surface brightness fluctuation (SBF) distances for a sample of 63 massive early-type galaxies using the WFC3/IR camera on the Hubble Space Telescope. The median uncertainty on the SBF distance measurements is 0.085 mag, or 3.9% in distance. Achieving this precision at distances of 50 to 100 Mpc required significant improvements to the SBF calibration and data analysis procedures for WFC3/IR data. Forty-two of the galaxies are from the MASSIVE Galaxy Survey, a complete sample of massive galaxies within ~100 Mpc; the SBF distances for these will be used to improve the estimates of the stellar and central supermassive black hole masses in these galaxies. Twenty-four of the galaxies are Type Ia supernova hosts, useful for calibrating SN Ia distances for early-type galaxies and exploring possible systematic trends in the peak luminosities. Our results demonstrate that the SBF method is a powerful and versatile technique for measuring distances to galaxies with evolved stellar populations out to 100 Mpc and constraining the local value of the Hubble constant. [Journal_ref: ]

Original language	English
Journal	ApJS
Volume	255
Issue number	21
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/ac01e7
State	Published - 2021

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Infrared Surface Brightness Fluctuation Distances for MASSIVE and Type Ia Supernova Host Galaxies

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