The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey (NGVS). III. A Catalog of Surface Brightness Fluctuation Distances and the Three-Dimensional Distribution of Galaxies in the Virgo Cluster

Understand

The surface brightness fluctuation (SBF) method is a robust and efficient way of measuring distances to galaxies containing evolved stellar populations.

• Although many recent applications of the method have used space-based imaging, SBF remains a powerful technique for ground-based telescopes.
• Deep, wide-field imaging surveys with subarsecond seeing enable SBF measurements for numerous nearby galaxies.
• Using a preliminary calibration, Cantiello et al.