Mikko Hanski, 2001, PhD thesis, Annales Universitatis Turkuensis, ser. AI, vol. 268

Contents

	Header	1
1	Introduction	7
	1.1  Basics of modern cosmology	7
	1.2  Galaxies	11
	1.3  Distance scale	12
	1.4  The aim of this thesis	14
2	KLUN galaxy sample	17
3	Tully-Fisher relation, Malmquist bias, and H0	19
	3.1  The Tully-Fisher relation	19
	3.2  The Malmquist bias and the normalized distance method	20
	3.3  Problems with the inverse Tully-Fisher relation	22
	3.4  Is H0 55, 72, or something in between?	23
4	Further applications	25
	4.1  Peculiar velocities in the Perseus-Pisces region	25
	4.2  Luminosity and velocity functions	27
	4.3  Radial space distribution of galaxies	32
5	Conclusion	34
	Bibliography	36
	Papers:
I	Theureau, G., Hanski, M., Teerikorpi, P. et al., 1997, A&A 319, 435
II	Theureau, G., Hanski, M., Ekholm, T. et al., 1997, A&A 322, 730
III	Teerikorpi, P., Hanski, M., Theureau, G. et al., 1998, A&A 334, 395
IV	Teerikorpi, P., Ekholm, T., Hanski, M., Theureau, G., 1999, A&A 343, 713
V	Ekholm, T., Teerikorpi, P., Theureau, G. et al., 1999, A&A 347, 99
VI	Hanski, M.O., Theureau, G., Ekholm, T., Teerikorpi, P., 2001, A&A 378, 345
VII	Hanski, M., 2001, submitted