id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt rv042r40f0x Charlotte M. Wood Testing the Top Rung of the Distance Ladder: Understanding Type Ia Supernovae Variations and Their Effects on the Hubble Constant 2022 .txt text/plain 531 21 49 Overall, my thesis aims to understand type Ia supernovae, their intrinsic variations, and if those variations have any effect on the measurement of the Hubble constant. Using surface brightness fluctuations to measure the distances to 25 type Ia supernovae in elliptical galaxies, I can compare how the properties of type Ia supernovae in elliptical galaxies compare to those in spiral galaxies with distances measured by Cepheid variables. cache/rv042r40f0x.txt txt/rv042r40f0x.txt