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Surface Brightness Fluctuations

Surface Brightness Fluctuations is a photometric distance measurement method that relies on the variance in pixel-to-pixel brightness of a galaxy's resolved stellar population to estimate its distance by quantifying the apparent fluctuations in surface brightness caused by the discrete distribution of stars.

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Stellar population synthesis at the resolution of 2003

Gustavo Bruzual, S. Charlot · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2003 · 10.6K citations · Full text

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Detailed Structural Decomposition of Galaxy Images

Chien Y. Peng, Luis C. Ho, Chris Impey et al. · The Astronomical Journal · 2002 · 2.8K citations · Full text

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The absolute magnitudes of Type IA supernovae

M. M. Phillips · The Astrophysical Journal · 1993 · 2.1K citations

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The SBF Survey of Galaxy Distances. IV. SBF Magnitudes, Colors, and Distances

The Astrophysical Journal · 2001 · 1.3K citations · Full text

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THE PROPAGATION OF UNCERTAINTIES IN STELLAR POPULATION SYNTHESIS MODELING. III. MODEL CALIBRATION, COMPARISON, AND EVALUATION

The Astrophysical Journal · 2010 · 1.2K citations · Full text

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    J. Tonry

    University of Hawaii System, United States

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    John P. Blakeslee

    Johns Hopkins University, United States

    25 publications · 2.9K citations

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    Edward A. Ajhar

    Kitt Peak National Observatory, United States

    12 publications · 1.2K citations

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  4. MC
    Michele Cantiello

    Collurania Teramo Observatory, Italy

    12 publications · 604 citations

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    Laura Ferrarese

    Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, Canada

    11 publications · 2K citations

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  1. University of Hawaii System

    Honolulu, United States

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    55 publications

    8.3K citations

  2. Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian

    Cambridge, United States

    27 h-index

    96 publications

    12.7K citations

  3. California Institute of Technology

    Pasadena, United States

    21 h-index

    49 publications

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  4. University of Arizona

    Tucson, United States

    19 h-index

    37 publications

    8.6K citations

  5. Kitt Peak National Observatory

    Tucson, United States

    19 h-index

    32 publications

    7.6K citations

  6. Australian National University

    Canberra, Australia

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    27 publications

    3.5K citations

  7. Johns Hopkins University

    Baltimore, United States

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    27 publications

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  8. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

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    27 publications

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  3. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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  4. Astronomy and Astrophysics

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    11 publications · 624 citations

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