Rastorguev А.S. "Astronomical Distances" (Lecture course for 5-th grade students and postgraduates, 2009-2024)
(Supported by RFBR grant 19-02-00611 and BASIS Foundation grant #20-2-3-34-1)
- Part 1. Introduction. Trigonometric parallaxes of stars. Moving clusters distances.
- Part 2. Astrometry and photometric distances: general approach. Normal stars as "standard candles".
- Part 3. Main Sequence fitting or distance scale of star clusters. Statistical parallaxes.
- Part 4. Moving photospheres technique. Cepheid distance scale and P-L relations. RR Lyrae distance scale.
- Part 5. SuperNovae Ia type. Tulli-Fisher and Faber-Jackson relations. Globular clusters luminosity function.
