A problem with the clustering of recent measures of the distance to the large magellanic cloud

Astronomical Journal

Volumn 135, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 112-119

  Schaefer, Bradley E ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Distance scale; Galaxies: distances and redshifts; Magellanic clouds

Indexed keywords

EID: 43049116431     PISSN: 00046256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-6256/135/1/112     Document Type: Article

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