An eclipsing-binary distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud accurate to two per cent by G. Pietrzyński and others (2013)

Nature 495, 76–79, DOI doi.org/10.1038/nature11878. Primary observational distance calibration using eight late-type eclipsing binaries; the abstract reports a 2.2% LMC distance accuracy. Its statistical and systematic distance errors are reported separately.