arXiv:1704.07782 [pdf, ps, other] Mass and p-factor of the type II Cepheid OGLE-LMC-T2CEP-098 in a binary system https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.03903 Absolute Magnitudes of Seismic Red Clumps in the Kepler Field and SAGA: the age dependency of the distance scale https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.10616 The Carnegie-Chicago Hubble Program. III. The Distance to NGC 1365 via the Tip of the Red Giant Branch https://arxiv.org/pdf/1609.05175.pdf A test of Gaia Data Release 1 parallaxes: implications for the local distance scale http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1974ApJ...194..543G An unbound universe, by Gott et al., is a nice summary of the field around 1974. The value of H0 varies from 30 < H0 < 120 in their estimation. This is a good reference point. Distance ladder mentions: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/1980ApJ...238..458M/abstract Refsdal papers: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016ApJ...822...78G http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016ApJ...820...50R http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016ApJ...819L...8K http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016ApJ...817...60T http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013ApJ...768..166J