Allan Sandage and the cosmic expansion |
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Authors: | G A Tammann B Reindl |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 82, 4056 Basel, Switzerland |
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Abstract: | This is an account of Allan Sandage’s work on (1) The character of the expansion field. For many years he has been the strongest defender of an expanding Universe. He later explained the CMB dipole by a local velocity of 220±50 km s−1 toward the Virgo cluster and by a bulk motion of the Local supercluster (extending out to ∼3500 km s−1) of 450–500 km s−1 toward an apex at l=275, b=12. Allowing for these streaming velocities he found linear expansion to hold down to local scales (∼300 km s−1). (2) The calibration of the Hubble constant. Probing different methods he finally adopted—from Cepheid-calibrated SNe Ia and from independent RR Lyr-calibrated TRGBs—H 0=62.3±1.3±5.0 km s−1 Mpc−1. |
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