Table 5: Observationally determined distances of RS Pup. ``IRSB'' stands for ``infrared surface brightness''.
Dist. [pc] Method Source

$1780 \pm200$		 Light echoes Havlen (1972a)

2040:		 Hipparcos parallax ESA (1997)

$\rm 2111^{+75}_{-73}$		 IRSB Fouqué et al. (2003)

$\rm 2052^{+61}_{-59}$		 IRSB Storm et al. (2004)

$2004 \pm 59$		 IRSB (least squares) Barnes et al. (2005)

$1984 \pm 122$		 IRSB (Bayesian) Barnes et al. (2005)

$\rm 521^{+266}_{-132}$		 Hipparcos re-reduction van Leeuwen (2007a)

$\rm 694^{+381}_{-181}$		 Hipparcos re-reduction van Leeuwen et al. (2007)

$\rm 1830^{+109}_{-94}$		 IRSB Fouqué et al. (2007)

$1992 \pm 28$		 Light echoes Present work


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