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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2016

J. R. Mould
J. R. Mould*
Affiliation:
Palomar Observatory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif. 91125, USA

Abstract

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It is traditional to begin a review on the subject of the Magellanic Clouds with a discussion of the distance of the Clouds. Feast did this in his introductory remarks to the meeting, and I shall not resist the temptation to reflect a little on this subject. At the Tubingen meeting we gave some thought to a new controversy between a (short) distance modulus of 18.2 for the LMC and the more traditional (Long) distance of 18.7. The short distance was primarily the result of main sequence fitting to LMC clusters resulting from new CCD photometry. A consensus has arisen since that time, and is represented at this meeting by results presented by Walker and Caldwell, and earlier by Reid and Strugnell (1986) and recently by Jacoby et al. (1990), that the best value of (m-M)o is 18.45±0.15 for the LMC (which is also the average of the short and long values). This is obtained, however, by given low weight to (firstly) recent work on the absolute magnitude of RR Lyrae stars based on the Baade-Wesselink technique and (secondly) the aforementioned main sequence fitting results

Type
Research Article
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 148: The Magellanic Clouds , 1991 , pp. 7 - 12
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1991 

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