\begin{table}%T9
\caption{\label{tab:dist}Different measurements of the distance to \baur. Details and references are given in the text.}
$$
\begin{tabular}{l r@{~$\pm$~}l r@{~$\pm$~}l r@{~$\pm$~}l r@{~$\pm$~}l} \hline \hline
Method                                          & \multicolumn{8}{c}{Distance (pc)}                 \\ \hline
Hipparcos parallax                              & \multicolumn{8}{c}{$25.2 \pm 0.5$}                \\
Orbital parallax                                & \multicolumn{8}{c}{$24.8 \pm 0.8$}                \\[2pt] \hline
                                                &  \mc{$B$}  &  \mc{$V$}  &  \mc{$J$}  &  \mc{$K$}  \\ \hline
Surface brightness calibrations                 & 25.5 & 1.8 & 24.8 & 1.6 & 24.8 & 0.5 & 25.0 & 0.4 \\
Bolometric corrections (Bessell et al.)          &    \mc{}   & 24.7 & 0.6 &    \mc{}   & 24.8 & 0.3 \\
Bolometric corrections (Girardi et al.)         & 25.5 & 0.8 & 24.7 & 0.6 & 24.5 & 0.4 & 24.8 & 0.3 \\
Empirical bolometric corrections (Code et al.)  &    \mc{}   & 24.4 & 0.8 &    \mc{}   &    \mc{}   \\
Empirical bolometric corrections (Flower)       &    \mc{}   & 24.9 & 0.9 &    \mc{}   &    \mc{}   \\
\hline 
\end{tabular}
$$
\end{table}