A precise and accurate distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud from late-type eclipsing-binary systems
Abstract
We present a precise and accurate measurement of the distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud based on late-type eclipsing-binary systems. Our results provide curently the most accurate zero point for the extragalactic distance scale.
- Publication:
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Advancing the Physics of Cosmic Distances
- Pub Date:
- February 2013
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S174392131202131X
- Bibcode:
- 2013IAUS..289..169P
- Keywords:
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- binaries: eclipsing;
- Magellanic Clouds;
- galaxies: individual (LMC);
- distance scale