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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

The effective radius is the radius from within which half the galaxy’s light is emitted.