{
  "id": "1101.1953",
  "version": "v2",
  "published": "2011-01-10T21:00:02.000Z",
  "updated": "2011-02-08T10:46:45.000Z",
  "title": "The Distance to the Massive Eclipsing Binary LMC-SC1-105 in the Large Magellanic Cloud",
  "authors": [
    "Alceste Z. Bonanos",
    "Norberto Castro",
    "Lucas M. Macri",
    "Rolf-Peter Kudritzki"
  ],
  "comment": "5 pages, 5 figures, emulateapj format, matches accepted ApJL version (v2: very minor changes)",
  "journal": "Astrophys.J. 729 (2011) L9-L14",
  "categories": [
    "astro-ph.SR",
    "astro-ph.CO"
  ],
  "abstract": "This paper presents the first distance measurement to the massive, semi-detached, eclipsing binary LMC-SC1-105, located in the LH 81 association of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). Previously determined parameters of the system are combined with new near-infrared photometry and a new temperature analysis to constrain the reddening toward the system, and determine a distance of 50.6+/-1.6 kpc (corresponding to a distance modulus of 18.52+/-0.07 mag), in agreement with previous eclipsing binary measurements. This is the sixth distance measurement to an eclipsing binary in the LMC, although the first to an O-type system. We thus demonstrate the suitability of O-type eclipsing binaries (EBs) as distance indicators. We suggest using bright, early-type EBs to measure distances along different sight lines, as an independent way to map the depth of the LMC and resolve the controversy about its three-dimensional structure.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v2",
      "updated": "2011-02-08T10:46:45.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "large magellanic cloud",
      "massive eclipsing binary",
      "first distance measurement",
      "sixth distance measurement",
      "o-type system"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "doi": "10.1088/2041-8205/729/1/L9",
      "journal": "The Astrophysical Journal",
      "year": 2011,
      "month": "Mar",
      "volume": 729,
      "number": 1
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 5,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 883880,
      "adsabs": "2011ApJ...729L...9B"
    }
  }
}