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Table 4

Summary of orientation measurements of the SMC disk.

Reference Inclination, i PAlon, φ Tracer used for the estimate

Caldwell & Coulson (1986) 70°±3° 148°±10 Cepheids
Laney & Stobie (1986) 45.̊0±7° 145°±17° Cepheids
Groenewegen (2000) 68.̊0±2.̊0 238.̊0 ±7.̊0 Cepheids
H12 74°±9° Cepheids
Evans & Howarth (2008) 126.̊0 Kinematics of OB stars
Stanimirović et al. (2004) 45° Kinematics of H i
Dobbie et al. (2014) 120° Kinematics of F/G supergiants
Our result from the combined sample 64.4 ± 0.66 155.3 ± 6.3 Cepheids

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