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An eclipsing-binary distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud accurate to two per cent

Nature, 2013
In the era of precision cosmology, it is essential to determine the Hubble constant to an accuracy of three per cent or better. At present, its uncertainty is dominated by the uncertainty in the distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), which, being ...
G. Pietrzyński, G. Pietrzyński, D. Graczyk, W. Gieren, I. Thompson, B. Pilecki, B. Pilecki, A. Udalski, I. Soszyński, S. Kozłowski, P. Konorski, K. Suchomska, G. Bono, P. Moroni, S. Villanova, N. Nardetto, F. Bresolin, R. Kudritzki, J. Storm, A. Gallenne, R. Smolec, D. Minniti, M. Kubiak, M. Szymański, R. Poleski, R. Poleski, Ł. Wyrzykowski, K. Ulaczyk, P. Pietrukowicz, M. Górski, P. Karczmarek   +30 more
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Detection of the Milky Way reflex motion due to the Large Magellanic Cloud infall

Nature Astronomy, 2020
The Large Magellanic Cloud is the most massive satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, with an estimated mass exceeding a tenth of the mass of the Milky Way1–5.
M. Petersen, J. Peñarrubia
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