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The Tip of the Red Giant Branch as a Cosmological Tool

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 February 2024

Myung Gyoon Lee Open the ORCID record for Myung Gyoon Lee [Opens in a new window]
Myung Gyoon Lee*
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Seoul National University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, SNUARC, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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email: mglee@astro.snu.ac.kr
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The luminosity of the brightest stars (tip) of the red giant branch (TRGB) in the color–magnitude diagrams of old stars was used early on to introduce the ‘multiple stellar populations’ concept, in 1944, by Walter Baade. However, the precision and accuracy of the TRGB for distance estimation has not been known well for long. In the modern era, equipped with high spatial resolution imaging telescopes, the TRGB is considered an excellent standard candle for any type of resolved galaxies, thus representing a powerful probe for cosmology. The TRGB has several advantages over the classical Cepheids. I review how we can apply the TRGB in cosmology. Four science cases, from large to small scales, are presented: (1) the Hubble flow with Type Ia supernovae; (2) Virgo Cluster infall and dark matter; (3) dark galaxies; and (4) dark matter-free galaxies.

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CosmologyCosmic distance scaleDark matterGalaxiesGalaxy clusters
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Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 18 , Symposium S376: At the crossroads of astrophysics and cosmology: Period–luminosity relations in the 2020s , December 2022 , pp. 30 - 47
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