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Asteroseismology, standard candles and the Hubble Constant: what is the role of asteroseismology in the era of precision cosmology?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 February 2014

Hilding R. Neilson
Affiliation:
Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, East Tennessee State University, PO Box 70300, Johnson City, TN 37614, USA email: neilsonh@etsu.edu
Marek Biesiada
Affiliation:
Department of Astrophysics and Cosmology, Institute of Physics, University of Silesia, Uniwersytecka 4, 40-007 Katowice, Poland
Nancy Remage Evans
Affiliation:
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, MS 4, 60 Garden St., Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Marcella Marconi
Affiliation:
INAF-Osservatorio astronomico di Capodimonte, Via Moiariello 16, I-80131 Napoli, Italy
Chow-Choong Ngeow
Affiliation:
Graduate Institute of Astronomy, National Central University, Jhong-Li 32001, Taiwan
Daniel R. Reese
Affiliation:
Institut d'Astrophysique et Géophysique de l'Université de Liège, Allée du 6 Août 17, 4000 Liège, Belgium
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Classical Cepheids form one of the foundations of modern cosmology and the extragalactic distance scale; however, cosmic microwave background observations measure cosmological parameters and indirectly the Hubble Constant, H0, to unparalleled precision. The coming decade will provide opportunities to measure H0 to 2% uncertainty thanks to the Gaia satellite, JWST, ELTs and other telescopes using Cepheids and other standard candles. In this work, we discuss the upcoming role for variable stars and asteroseismology in calibrating the distance scale and measuring H0 and what problems exist in understanding these stars that will feed back on these measurements.

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