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Globular Clusters, Hipparcos, and the Age of the Galaxy
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.95.1.8
Bibcode: 1998PNAS...95....8R
Reid, Neill
We discuss the impact of the results from the recent Hipparcos astrometric satellite on distance estimates of galactic globular clusters. Recalibrating the clusters not only implies a relatively small change in the distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud, and hence a rescaling of several estimates of the Hubble constant, but also leads to significa…
1998
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Science
Hipparcos
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