THE EXTRAGALACTIC DISTANCE DATABASE: COLOR–MAGNITUDE DIAGRAMS

By B. Jacobs, L. Rizzi, R. B. Tully, Edward Shaya, Dmitry I. Makarov, L. Makarova. 2009

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The color–magnitude diagrams/tip of the red giant branch (CMDs/TRGB) section of the Extragalactic Distance Database contains a compilation of observations of nearby galaxies from the Hubble Space Telescope. Approximately 250 (and increasing) galaxies in the Local Volume have CMDs and the stellar photometry tables used to produce them available through the Web. Various stellar populations that make up a galaxy are visible in the CMDs, but our primary purpose for collecting and analyzing these galaxy images is to measure the TRGB in each. We can estimate the distance to a galaxy by using stars at the TRGB as standard candles. In this paper, we describe the process of constructing the CMDs and make the results available to the public.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

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Galaxy Groups Within 3500 km s−1 (2017, methodology): “Subsequent imaging with the Hubble Space Telescope has provided distance estimates for about 400 nearby galaxies from the apparent magnitude of the tip of the red giant branch in each system (Karachentsev et al. 2002, 2006; Jacobs et al. 2009).”
THE EXTRAGALACTIC DISTANCE DATABASE (2009, methodology): “As in the case of CMDs/TRGB, this catalog provides tabular and graphic information resulting from our own observations and the full story is told in a separate paper in this series (Courtois et al. 2009b).”
SPARC: MASS MODELS FOR 175 DISK GALAXIES WITH SPITZER PHOTOMETRY AND ACCURATE ROTATION CURVES (2016, background): “The vast majority of these distances are drawn from the Extragalactic Distance Database (Jacobs et al. 2009; Tully et al. 2013).”
COSMICFLOWS-2: THE DATA (2013, background): “The compilation of the data for public access in the Extragalactic Distance Database (EDD)2 is discussed in Jacobs et al. (2009).”
HyperLEDA. III. The catalogue of extragalactic distances (2014, methodology): “To circumvent this limitation, we can consider building our calibration set around the ‘CMDs/TRGB’ catalogue (Jacobs et al. 2009) of EDD, encompassing highly homogenized measurements for 305 galaxies using the maximum-likelihood TRGB fit byMakarov et al.(2006) and the TRGB zero-point byRizzi et…”
THE SMALL SCATTER OF THE BARYONIC TULLY–FISHER RELATION (2015, background): “The majority of these distances (24/32) are drawn from the Extragalactic Distance Database (Jacobs et al. 2009).”
CONFIRMATION OF FAINT DWARF GALAXIES IN THE M81 GROUP (2013, methodology): “Previous work has shown that it is possible to measure tip of the red giant branch distances for resolved stellar populations in dwarf galaxies out to ∼ 10 Mpc (see e.g. Makarov et al. 2006; Rizzi et al. 2007; Jacobs et al. 2009).”
The search for failed supernovae with the Large Binocular Telescope: first candidates (2014, unknown): “References – (1) Gerke et al. 2011; (2) Jacobs et al. 2009; (3) Shappee & Stanek 2011; (4) Herrmann et al. 2008; (5) Karachentsev et al. 2004; (6) Karachentsev et al. 2003; (7) Willick et al. 1997; (8) Drozdovsky & Karachentsev 2000; (9) Verdes-Montenegro et al. 2000; (10) Theureau et al. 2007;…”