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Table 1:

Summary of orientation measurements of LMC disk plane.

Reference 		Inclination, i PA $_{\rm lon}$, $\phi$ Tracer used for the estimate
de Vaucouleurs & Freeman (1972) $27^{\circ}\pm2^{\circ}$ $170^{\circ}\pm5$ Isophotes
Feitzinger et al. (1977) $33\hbox{$.\!\!^\circ$ }0\pm3^{\circ}$ $168^{\circ}\pm4^{\circ}$ HI
Caldwell & Coulson (1986) $28\hbox{$.\!\!^\circ$ }0\pm5\hbox{$.\!\!^\circ$ }9$ 142 $.\!\!^\circ$4 $\pm$7 $.\!\!^\circ$7 Cepheids
Luks & Rohlfs (1992) - $162\hbox{$.\!\!^\circ$ }0$ HI
Kim et al. (1998) $22\hbox{$.\!\!^\circ$ }0\pm6^{\circ}$ $168\hbox{$.\!\!^\circ$ }0$ HI
van der Marel & Cioni (2001) $34\hbox{$.\!\!^\circ$ }7\pm6\hbox{$.\!\!^\circ$ }2$ $122\hbox{$.\!\!^\circ$ }5\pm8\hbox{$.\!\!^\circ$ }3$ AGB stars
Olsen & Salyk (2002) $35\hbox{$.\!\!^\circ$ }8\pm2\hbox{$.\!\!^\circ$ }4$ $145^{\circ}\pm4^{\circ}$ Red clump stars
Nikolaev et al. (2004) $30\hbox{$.\!\!^\circ$ }7\pm1\hbox{$.\!\!^\circ$ }1$ $151^{\circ}\pm2\hbox{$.\!\!^\circ$ }4$ Cepheids
Persson et al. (2004) $27\hbox{$.\!\!^\circ$ }0\pm6\hbox{$.\!\!^\circ$ }0$ $127^{\circ}\pm10\hbox{$.\!\!^\circ$ }0$ Cepheids
Koerwer (2009) $523\hbox{$.\!\!^\circ$ }\pm0\hbox{$.\!\!^\circ$ }4$ $154\hbox{$.\!\!^\circ$ }6\pm1\hbox{$.\!\!^\circ$ }2$ Red clump stars
Our estimates      
OGLE III $23^{\circ}\pm0\hbox{$.\!\!^\circ$ }8$ $163 \hbox{$.\!\!^\circ$ }7\pm1 \hbox{$.\!\!^\circ$ }5$ Red clump stars
MCPS $37\hbox{$.\!\!^\circ$ }4\pm2\hbox{$.\!\!^\circ$ }3$ $141\hbox{$.\!\!^\circ$ }2\pm3\hbox{$.\!\!^\circ$ }7$ Red clump stars


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