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The “standard candle method” for Type II plateau supernovae produces a Hubble diagram with a dispersion of 0.3 mag, which implies that this technique can produce distances with a precision of 15%. Using four nearby supernovae with Cepheid distances I find H 0(V )=75±7, and H 0(I)=65±12.
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Hamuy, M. (2005). The Standard Candle Method for Type II Supernovae and the Hubble Constan. In: Marcaide, JM., Weiler, K.W. (eds) Cosmic Explosions. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 99. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-26633-X_71
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