HyperLEDA. III. The catalogue of extragalactic distances

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We present the compilation catalogue of redshift-independent distances included in the HyperLEDA database.

• It is actively maintained to be up-to-date, and the current version counts 6640 distance measurements for 2335 galaxies compiled from 430 published articles.
• Each individual series is recalibrated onto a common distance scale based on a carefully selected set of high-quality measurements.
• This information together with data on HI line-width, central velocity dispersion, magnitudes, diameters, and redshift is used to derive a homogeneous distance estimate and physical properties of galaxies, such as their absolute magnitudes and intrinsic size.