Paper:	The Distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud
Volume:	203, The Impact of Large-Scale Surveys on Pulsating Star Research, IAU Colloquium 176
Page:	203
Authors:	Popowski, P.
Abstract:	I demonstrate that the two unexpected results in the local Universe: anomalous intrinsic (V-I)0 colors of RR Lyrae stars and clump giants in the Galactic center, and very short distances to Magellanic Clouds inferred from clump giants, can be at least partially resolved with a modified coefficient of selective extinction AV/E(V-I). With this modification, I find a new clump-giant distance modulus to the Large Magellanic Cloud, μLMC = 18.27 +/- 0.07, which is 0.09 larger than the Udalski (1998b) result. When distance estimates from the red clump, RR Lyrae stars and the eclipsing binary HV2274 are combined, one obtains μLMC = 18.31 +/- 0.04 (internal).

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