Clump Giant Distance to the Magellanic Clouds and Anomalous Colors in the Galactic Bulge
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I demonstrate that the two unexpected results in the local universe-(1) anomalous intrinsic (V-I&parr0;0 colors of the clump giants and RR Lyrae stars in the Galactic center, and (2) very short distances to the Magellanic Clouds (LMC, SMC) as inferred from clu... ...