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A Review of the Distance and Structure of the Large Magellanic Cloud

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 March 2016

David R. Alves
David R. Alves*
Affiliation:
Columbia Astrophysics Lab., 550 W. 120th St., New York, NY, USA

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The debate about the distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) has an epic history full of controversial and dramatic claims (i.e., see review by Walker 2003), and yet in recent years a standard distance modulus has emerged due primarily to the completion of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Key Project to measure the Hubble constant (Preedman et al. 2001). The adopted standard distance modulus,µ0 = 18.5±0.1 mag, yields H0 = 71±10 km s−1 Mpc−1 (total error) in excellent agreement with that derived from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe: H0 72±5 km s−1 Mpc−1 (Spergel et al. 2003), which lends considerable support to its accuracy.

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I. Joint Discussions
Information
Highlights of Astronomy , Volume 13 , 2005 , pp. 448 - 449
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Pacific 2005

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