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Evidence for possible systematic underestimation of uncertainties in extragalactic distances and its...

Evidence for possible systematic underestimation of uncertainties in extragalactic distances and its...

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Evidence for possible systematic underestimation of uncertainties in extragalactic distances and its cosmological implications

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Evidence for possible systematic underestimation of uncertainties in extragalactic distances and its cosmological implications

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Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands

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Astrophysics and space science, 2021-10, Vol.366 (10), Article 99

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English

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Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands

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We analyze 91,742 reported extragalactic distance moduli and their one sigma uncertainties for 14,560 galaxies with multiple reported distances in the NED Redshift-Independent Distances database. For every ordered pair of distance moduli measurements 1 and 2 for each galaxy, we define
Δ
(
σ
)
1
,
2
, a measure for how differ...

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Evidence for possible systematic underestimation of uncertainties in extragalactic distances and its cosmological implications

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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2587486894

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2587486894

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0004-640X

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1572-946X

DOI

10.1007/s10509-021-04006-5

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