The Distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud
| dc.creator | Popowski, Piotr | |
| dc.date | 2000-01-31 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T01:51:59Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T01:51:59Z | |
| dc.description | I demonstrate that the two unexpected results in the local Universe: anomalous intrinsic (V-I)_0 colors of RR Lyrae stars and clump giants in the Galactic center, and very short distances to Magellanic Clouds inferred from clump giants, can be at least partially resolved with a modified coefficient of selective extinction A_V/E(V-I). With this modification, I find a new clump-giant distance modulus to the Large Magellanic Cloud, mu_{LMC} = 18.27 +/- 0.07, which is 0.09 larger than the Udalski (1998b) result. When distance estimates from the red clump, RR Lyrae stars and the eclipsing binary HV2274 are combined, one obtains mu_{LMC} = 18.31 +/- 0.04 (internal). | |
| dc.description | less detailed and more review-style version of ApJ Letter (528, L9), to be published in the ASP Conference Series Vol. 203, 1999: ``The Impact of Large Scale Surveys on Pulsating Star Research'', L. Szabados and D. Kurtz, eds | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0001545 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0001545 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/479 | |
| dc.subject | Astrophysics | |
| dc.title | The Distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud | |
| dc.type | text |