A "short" distance to the large magellanic cloud with the Hipparcos calibrated red clump stars

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 500, Issue 2 PART II, 1998, Pages

  Stanek, K Z ^a,c   Zaritsky, D ^b   Harris, J ^b  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^b University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

^c NICOLAUS COPERNICUS ASTRONOMICAL CENTER   (Poland)

Author keywords

Galaxies: distances and redshifts; Galaxies: individual (Large Magellanic Cloud) solar neighborhood; Stars: horizontal branch

Indexed keywords

EID: 22044454478     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/311420     Document Type: Article

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