An eclipsing-binary distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud accurate to two per cent by G. Pietrzyński and others 2026-10-20
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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.
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