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Table 1
Summary of orientation measurements of LMC disk plane.
| Reference | Inclination, i | PAlon, φ | Tracer used for the estimate | |
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| de Vaucouleurs & Freeman (1972) | 27° ± 2° | 170° ± 5 | Isophotes | |
| Feitzinger et al. (1977) | 33 0 ± 3° |
168° ± 4° | HI | |
| Caldwell & Coulson (1986) | 280 ± 59 |
1424 ± 77 |
Cepheids | |
| Luks & Rohlfs (1992) | − | 1620 |
HI | |
| Kim et al. (1998) | 220 ± 6° |
1680 |
HI | |
| van der Marel & Cioni (2001) | 347 ± 62 |
1225 ± 83 |
AGB stars | |
| Olsen & Salyk (2002) | 358 ± 24 |
145° ± 4° | Red clump stars | |
| Nikolaev et al. (2004) | 307 ± 11 |
151° ± 24 |
Cepheids | |
| Persson et al. (2004) | 270 ± 60 |
127° ± 100 |
Cepheids | |
| Koerwer (2009) | 235 ± 04 |
1546 ± 12 |
Red clump stars | |
| Subramanian & Subramaniam (2010) (OGLE III data) | 23° ± 08 |
1637 ± 15 |
Red clump stars | |
| Subramanian & Subramaniam (2010) (MCPS data) | 374 ± 23 |
1412 ± 37 |
Red clump stars | |
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| Our estimates | ||||
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| Method 1 (H band magnitudes) | 266 ± 13 |
1483 ± 38 |
Red clump stars | |
| Method 2 (H band magnitudes) | 257 ± 16 |
1415 ± 45 |
Red clump stars | |
| Method 2 (J band magnitudes) | 244 ± 25 |
1463 ± 65 |
Red clump stars | |
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