Wendy L. Freedman

Research.com Recognitions

• 2016 - Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics, American Astronomical Society
• 2011 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For fundamental contributions in observational cosmology, including the determination of the Hubble constant
• 2010 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
• 2005 - Klopsteg Memorial Award, American Association of Physics Teachers
• 2003 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
• 2000 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Best Publications

• 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

  4527
  Citations

• The Tip of the Red Giant Branch as a Distance Indicator for Resolved Galaxies

  Myung Gyoon Lee;Wendy L. Freedman;Barry F. Madore

  1065
  Citations

• 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

  866
  Citations

• Report of the Dark Energy Task Force

  Andreas Albrecht;Gary Bernstein;Robert Cahn;Wendy L. Freedman

  830
  Citations

• 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

  828
  Citations

• 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

  785
  Citations

• 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

  765
  Citations

• The Cepheid Distance Scale

  Barry F. Madore;Wendy L. Freedman

  597
  Citations

• The Hubble Constant

  Wendy L. Freedman;Barry F. Madore

  556
  Citations

• The Carnegie Supernova Project: First Photometry Data Release of Low-Redshift Type Ia Supernovae

  Carlos Contreras;Mario Hamuy;M. M. Phillips;Gaston Folatelli

  552
  Citations

• Carnegie Hubble Program: A Mid-Infrared Calibration of the Hubble Constant

  Wendy L. Freedman;Barry F. Madore;Victoria Scowcroft;Chris Burns

  532
  Citations

• The Carnegie-Chicago Hubble Program. VIII. An Independent Determination of the Hubble Constant Based on the Tip of the Red Giant Branch

  Wendy L. Freedman;Barry F. Madore;Dylan Hatt;Taylor J. Hoyt

  473
  Citations

• Hubble Space Telescope Fine Guidance Sensor Parallaxes of Galactic Cepheid Variable Stars: Period-Luminosity Relations

  G. Fritz Benedict;Barbara E. McArthur;Michael W. Feast;Thomas G. Barnes;Thomas G. Barnes

  437
  Citations

• Snowmass2021 - Letter of interest cosmology intertwined II: The hubble constant tension

  Eleonora Di Valentino;Luis A. Anchordoqui;Özgür Akarsu;Yacine Ali-Haimoud

  437
  Citations

• 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

  421
  Citations

• Type Iax Supernovae: A new class of stellar explosion

  Ryan J. Foley;Peter J. Challis;Ryan Chornock;Mohan Ganeshalingam

  401
  Citations

• An empirical test for the metallicity sensitivity of the Cepheid period-luminosity relation

  Wendy L. Freedman;Barry F. Madore

  394
  Citations

• New Cepheid Period-Luminosity Relations for the Large Magellanic Cloud: 92 Near-Infrared Light Curves

  S. E. Persson;Barry F. Madore;Barry F. Madore;W. Krzemiński;Wendy L. Freedman

  393
  Citations

• New Cepheid distances to nearby galaxies based on BVRI CCD photometry. II, The Local Group galaxy M33

  Wendy L. Freedman;Christine D. Wilson;Barry F. Madore

  392
  Citations

• Report of the Dark Energy Task Force

  Andreas Albrecht;Wayne Hu;Marc Kamionkowski;Wendy L. Freedman

  182
  Citations