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In May 1976, when one of us was temporarily associated with Stras­ bourg Observatory for lecturing on distance determination methods (Heck 1978), Pierre Lacroute - then in his last year as Director there - mod­ estly requested comments on a project he had been cherishing for quite a few years, and which he had been presenting to visitors and colleagues: an astrometric satellite. His persuasiveness and persistence won support from the scientific com­ munity, from the French space agency CNES and from the European Space Agency (ESA): the Hipparcos satellite was born. It was fitting that Lacroute lived long enough after his retirement to attend the launch of his brainchild in 1989 and to see it successfully operational. He knew however he would not enjoy the completion of this long and ambitious mission (he passed away on 14 January 1993, a few days before reaching the age of 87). In May 1997, in the prestigious setting of San Giorgio :Maggiore in Venice, ESA organized a symposium celebrating the presentation of the Hipparcos and Tycho catalogues. That conference signalled also the re­ lease of the first scientific results based at least partially on Hipparcos data. An impressive proceedings volume (Battrick 1997) of more than nine hundred pages, gathering together almost two hundred contributions, gave evidence of numerous studies in progress, in addition to papers starting to appear in the classical journals. The well-maintained ESA Hipparcos web site (http://astro. estec. esa.

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Author:   Andre Heck ,  F. Caputo
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1999
Volume:   237
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.483kg
ISBN:  

9789401059909

ISBN 10:   940105990
Pages:   284
Publication Date:   13 October 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Hipparcos: A New Basis for Calibrating Distance Indicators.- Distance Determination with Cepheid Variables.- Absolute Magnitudes Derived Using the Statistical Parallax Method.- The RR Lyrae Distance Scale.- Mira Distances and their Use.- Distances and Ages of Globular Clusters using Hipparcos Parallaxes of Local Sub-dwarfs.- Globular Cluster Distance Determinations.- The Distances of the Magellanic Clouds.- Helium Core Flash and Tip of the Red Giant Branch Distances.- Distances from the Planetary Nebulae Luminosity Function.- Distances from Surface Brightness Fluctuations.- Distances from the Correlation between Galaxy Luminosities and Rotation Rates.- Distance Scale from Supernovae.- The Contribution of Microlensing Surveys to the Distance Scale.- Stellar Evolution and Standard Candles.

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`Post-Hipparcos Cosmic Candles is an excellent overview of cosmic distance scales.' Thomas Barnes

`Post-Hipparcos Cosmic Candles is an excellent overview of cosmic distance scales.' Thomas Barnes

'Post-Hipparcos Cosmic Candles is an excellent overview of cosmic distance scales.' Thomas Barnes

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