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"The Hubble Constant"

Neal Jackson

	Abstract
1	Introduction
	1.1	A brief history
	1.2	A little cosmology
2	One-Step Distance Methods
	2.1	Megamaser cosmology
	2.2	Gravitational lenses
	2.3	The Sunyaev–Zel’dovich effect
	2.4	Gamma-ray propagation
3	Local Distance Ladder
	3.1	Preliminary remarks
	3.2	Basic principle
	3.3	Problems and comments
4	The CMB and Cosmological Estimates of the Distance Scale
	4.1	The physics of the anisotropy spectrum and its implications
	4.2	Degeneracies and implications for H₀
5	Conclusion
	Acknowledgements
	References
	Footnotes
	Updates
	Figures
	Tables

Figure 1: Hubble’s original diagram of distance to nearby galaxies, derived from measurements using Cepheid variables, against velocity, derived from redshift. The Hubble constant is the slope of this relation, and in this diagram is a factor of nearly 10 steeper than currently accepted values. Image reproduced from [95].