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Peter B. Stetson

Peter B. Stetson

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Physics

D-Index
115
Citations
53965
World Ranking
981
National Ranking
24

Overview

Peter B. Stetson is affiliated with the University of Victoria in Canada. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Physics and Astronomy, with particular expertise in Astronomy and Astrophysics.

Their scholarly work spans several subfields, including Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation, General Health Professions, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, as well as Philosophy. The main topics of their research include stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, astronomy and astrophysical research, astrophysics and star formation studies, galaxies' formation, evolution, and phenomena, as well as astro and planetary science, adaptive optics and wavefront sensing, and gamma-ray bursts and supernovae.

Peter B. Stetson has contributed to a variety of research publications. Recent papers include:

  • NICMOS observations of extragalactic Cepheids. I. Photometry database and a test of the standard extinction law (2024, OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University))
  • On the Use of Field RR Lyrae As Galactic Probes: IV. New Insights Into and Around the Oosterhoff Dichotomy (2021, The Astrophysical Journal)
  • Separation between RR Lyrae and type II Cepheids and their importance for a distance determination: the case of omega Cen (2020, Astronomy and Astrophysics)
  • Variable stars in Local Group galaxies - V. The fast and early evolution of the low-mass Eridanus II dSph galaxy (2021, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society)
  • On the Use of Field RR Lyrae as Galactic Probes. V. Optical and Radial Velocity Curve Templates (2021, The Astrophysical Journal)

The frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Peter B. Stetson include:

  • G. Bono
  • G. Fiorentino
  • M. Dall'Ora
  • M. Monelli
  • V. F. Braga

Common publication venues where their work appears are:

  • The Astrophysical Journal
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)

Best Publications

  • DAOPHOT: A Computer Program for Crowded-Field Stellar Photometry

    Peter B. Stetson

  • Final Results from the Hubble Space Telescope Key Project to Measure the Hubble Constant

    Wendy L. Freedman;Barry F. Madore;Barry F. Madore;Brad K. Gibson;Laura Ferrarese

  • The Center of the core - cusp globular cluster M15: CFHT and HST Observations, ALLFRAME reductions

    Peter B. Stetson

  • The HST Key Project on the Extragalactic Distance Scale. XXVIII. Combining the Constraints on the Hubble Constant

    Jeremy R Mould;John P Huchra;Wendy L Freedman;Robert C Kennicutt Jr

  • The Hubble Space Telescope Key Project on the Extragalactic Distance Scale. XXVIII. Combining the Constraints on the Hubble Constant

    Jeremy R. Mould;John P. Huchra;Wendy L. Freedman;Robert C. Kennicutt

  • The Hubble Space Telescope Extragalactic Distance Scale Key Project. 1: The discovery of Cepheids and a new distance to M81

    Wendy L. Freedman;Shaun M. Hughes;Barry F. Madore;Jeremy R. Mould

  • Distance to the Virgo cluster galaxy M100 from Hubble Space Telescope observations of Cepheids

    Wendy L. Freedman;Barry F. Madore;Jeremy R. Mould;Robert Hill

  • Homogeneous Photometry for Star Clusters and Resolved Galaxies. II. Photometric Standard Stars

    Peter B. Stetson

  • The ACS Nearby Galaxy Survey Treasury

    Julianne J. Dalcanton;Benjamin F. Williams;Anil C. Seth;Andrew Dolphin

  • CCD photometry of the globular cluster M92

    Peter B. Stetson;William E. Harris

  • ON THE GROWTH-CURVE METHOD FOR CALIBRATING STELLAR PHOTOMETRY WITH CCDS

    Peter B. Stetson

  • On the Automatic Determination of Light-Curve Parameters for Cepheid Variables

    Peter B. Stetson

  • Galactic Globular Cluster Metallicity Scale from the Calcium Triplet. II. Rankings, Comparisons and Puzzles

    G.A. Rutledge;J.E. Hesser;P.B. Stetson

  • The HST Key Project on the Extragalactic Distance Scale XIII. The Metallicity Dependence of the Cepheid Distance Scale

    R. Kennicutt;P. Stetson;A. Saha;D. Kelson

  • The Hubble Space Telescope Key Project on the Extragalactic Distance Scale. XXVI. The Calibration of Population II Secondary Distance Indicators and the Value of the Hubble Constant

    Laura Ferrarese;Jeremy R. Mould;Robert C. Kennicutt;John Huchra

  • GALACTIC GLOBULAR CLUSTER METALLICITY SCALE FROM THE CA II TRIPLET II. RANKINGS, COMPARISONS, AND PUZZLES

    G. A. Rutledge;J. E. Hesser;P. B. Stetson

  • The Hubble Space Telescope Key Project on the Extragalactic Distance Scale. XIII. The Metallicity Dependence of the Cepheid Distance Scale

    Robert C. Kennicutt;Peter B. Stetson;Abhijit Saha;Dan Kelson

  • DAOSPEC: An Automatic Code for Measuring Equivalent Widths in High-Resolution Stellar Spectra*

    Peter B. Stetson;Elena Pancino

  • The Hubble constant and Virgo cluster distance from observations of Cepheid variables

    Michael J. Pierce;Michael J. Pierce;Douglas L. Welch;Robert D. McClure;Sidney van den Bergh

  • The HST Key Project on the Extragalactic Distance Scale XXVI. The Calibration of Population II Secondary Distance Indicators and the Value of the Hubble Constant

    Laura Ferrarese;Jeremy R. Mould;Robert C. Kennicutt;John Huchra

Frequent Co-Authors

Barry F. Madore
Barry F. Madore Carnegie Institution for Science
Wendy L. Freedman
Wendy L. Freedman University of Chicago
Laura Ferrarese
Laura Ferrarese National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Jeremy Mould
Jeremy Mould Swinburne University of Technology
Brad K. Gibson
Brad K. Gibson University of Hull
Antonio Aparicio
Antonio Aparicio University of La Laguna
Giuseppe Bono
Giuseppe Bono University of Rome Tor Vergata
Santi Cassisi
Santi Cassisi National Institute for Astrophysics
Garth D. Illingworth
Garth D. Illingworth University of California, Santa Cruz
Shoko Sakai
Shoko Sakai University of California, Los Angeles

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