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Visual Distance Indicators

Visual Distance Indicators is a perceptual construct in atmospheric perspective that denotes the set of measurable visual cues—such as contrast, color saturation, and detail attenuation—used to infer relative depth and spatial separation in a scene by distinguishing distant elements from nearer ones based on atmospheric scattering effects.

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401

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220

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2017–2026

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The Tip of the Red Giant Branch as a Distance Indicator for Resolved Galaxies

Myung Gyoon Lee, Wendy L. Freedman, Barry F. Madore · The Astrophysical Journal · 1993 · 703 citations

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CHARACTERIZING THE<i>V</i>-BAND LIGHT-CURVES OF HYDROGEN-RICH TYPE II SUPERNOVAE

J. P. Anderson, S. González–Gaitán, M. Hamuy et al. · The Astrophysical Journal · 2014 · 372 citations · Full text

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RESULTS OF THE LICK OBSERVATORY SUPERNOVA SEARCH FOLLOW-UP PHOTOMETRY PROGRAM: <i>BVRI</i> LIGHT CURVES OF 165 TYPE Ia SUPERNOVAE

M. Ganeshalingam, Weidong Li, A. V. Filippenko et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series · 2010 · 239 citations

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A new calibration of Galactic Cepheid period-luminosity relations from B to K bands, and a comparison to LMC relations

P. Fouqué, P. Arriagada, J. Storm et al. · Astronomy and Astrophysics · 2007 · 227 citations · Full text

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The Galaxy Motion Relative to Nearby Galaxies and the Local Velocity Field

D. I. Makarov · The Astronomical Journal · 1996 · 196 citations

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Authors

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  1. AS
    Allan Sandage

    Carnegie Observatories, United States

    5 publications · 159 citations

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  2. WL
    Wendy L. Freedman

    Carnegie Observatories, United States

    4 publications · 1.1K citations

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  3. RM
    R. M. Humphreys

    University of Minnesota, United States

    4 publications · 125 citations

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  4. MH
    M. Hamuy

    University of Chile, Chile

    3 publications · 481 citations

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  5. KK
    K. Krisciunas

    Texas A&M University, United States

    3 publications · 414 citations

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1–5 of 401

Institutions

220

  1. The University of Tokyo

    Tokyo, Japan

    9 h-index

    12 publications

    1.3K citations

  2. Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía

    Granada, Spain

    6 h-index

    11 publications

    729 citations

  3. European Southern Observatory

    Garching bei München, Germany

    6 h-index

    10 publications

    454 citations

  4. Carnegie Observatories

    Pasadena, United States

    5 h-index

    7 publications

    1.3K citations

  5. Nagoya University

    Nagoya, Japan

    5 h-index

    5 publications

    426 citations

  6. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

    Santiago, Chile

    5 h-index

    6 publications

    665 citations

  7. South African Radio Astronomy Observatory

    Cape Town, South Africa

    5 h-index

    5 publications

    231 citations

  8. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    5 h-index

    29 publications

    1.3K citations

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  1. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

    24 publications · 1.5K citations

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  2. The Astrophysical Journal

    ApJ · 22 publications · 1.9K citations

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  3. The Astronomical Journal

    AJ · 12 publications · 556 citations

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  4. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific

    PASP · 8 publications · 322 citations

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  5. Astronomy and Astrophysics

    8 publications · 459 citations

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