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A 2.4% DETERMINATION OF THE LOCAL VALUE OF THE HUBBLE CONSTANT by Riess, Adam G, Macri, Lucas M, Hoffmann, Samantha L, Scolnic, Dan, Casertano, Stefano, Filippenko, Alexei V, Tucker, Brad E, Reid, Mark J, Jones, David O, Silverman, Jeffrey M, Chornock, Ryan, Challis, Peter, Yuan, Wenlong, Brown, Peter J, Foley, Ryan J

“…ABSTRACT We use the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) to reduce the uncertainty in the local value of the Hubble constant from…”
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Mapping spiral structure on the far side of the Milky Way by Sanna, Alberto, Reid, Mark J., Dame, Thomas M., Menten, Karl M., Brunthaler, Andreas

“…Little is known about the portion of the Milky Way lying beyond the Galactic center at distances of more than 9 kiloparsec from the Sun. These regions are…”
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A VLBI resolution of the Pleiades distance controversy by Melis, Carl, Reid, Mark J., Mioduszewski, Amy J., Stauffer, John R., Bower, Geoffrey C.

“…Because of its proximity and its youth, the Pleiades open cluster of stars has been extensively studied and serves as a cornerstone for our understanding of…”
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An Updated Reference Frame for the Galactic Inner Parsec by Darling, Jeremy, Paine, Jennie, Reid, Mark J., Menten, Karl M., Sakai, Shoko, Ghez, Andrea

“…Abstract Infrared observations of stellar orbits about Sgr A* probe the mass distribution in the inner parsec of the Galaxy and provide definitive evidence for…”
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Noncircular Motions in the Outer Perseus Spiral Arm by Sakai, Nobuyuki, Reid, Mark J., Menten, Karl M., Brunthaler, Andreas, Dame, Thomas M.

“…We report measurements of parallax and proper motion for five 6.7 GHz methanol maser sources in the outer regions of the Perseus arm as part of the BeSSeL…”
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Precise Black Hole Masses from Megamaser Disks: Black Hole-Bulge Relations at Low Mass by Greene, Jenny E, Peng, Chien Y, Kim, Minjin, Kuo, Cheng-Yu, Braatz, James A, Impellizzeri, C. M. Violette, Condon, James J, Lo, K. Y, Henkel, Christian, Reid, Mark J

“…The black hole (BH)-bulge correlations have greatly influenced the last decade of efforts to understand galaxy evolution. Current knowledge of these…”
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VLBA Trigonometric Parallax Measurement of the Semi-regular Variable RT Vir by Zhang, Bo, Zheng, Xingwu, Reid, Mark J., Honma, Mareki, Menten, Karl M., Brunthaler, Andreas, Kim, Jaeheon

“…We report a trigonometric parallax measurement of 22 GHz H2O masers toward the semi-regular variable RT Vir from multi-epoch Very Long Baseline Array…”
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THE INTRINSIC SHAPE OF SAGITTARIUS A AT 3.5 mm WAVELENGTH by Ortiz-León, Gisela N., Johnson, Michael D., Doeleman, Sheperd S., Blackburn, Lindy, Fish, Vincent L., Loinard, Laurent, Reid, Mark J., Castillo, Edgar, Chael, Andrew A., Hernández-Gómez, Antonio, Hughes, David H., León-Tavares, Jonathan, Lu, Ru-Sen, Montaña, Alfredo, Narayanan, Gopal, Rosenfeld, Katherine, Sánchez, David, Schloerb, F. Peter, Shen, Zhi-qiang, Shiokawa, Hotaka, SooHoo, Jason, Vertatschitsch, Laura

“…ABSTRACT The radio emission from Sgr A is thought to be powered by accretion onto a supermassive black hole of at the Galactic Center. At millimeter…”
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Geometric Distance and Proper Motion of the Triangulum Galaxy (M33) by Brunthaler, Andreas, Reid, Mark J, Falcke, Heino, Greenhill, Lincoln J, Henkel, Christian

“…We measured the angular rotation and proper motion of the Triangulum Galaxy (M33) with the Very Long Baseline Array by observing two H₂O masers on opposite…”
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A Milliarcsecond-accurate Position for Sagittarius A by Xu, Shuangjing, Zhang, Bo, Reid, Mark J., Zheng, Xingwu, Wang, Guangli, Jung, Taehyun

“…Abstract The absolute position of Sgr A*, the compact radio source at the center of the Milky Way, had been uncertain by several tens of milliarcseconds. Here…”
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Cygnus X-1 contains a 21-solar mass black hole-Implications for massive star winds by Miller-Jones, James C A, Bahramian, Arash, Orosz, Jerome A, Mandel, Ilya, Gou, Lijun, Maccarone, Thomas J, Neijssel, Coenraad J, Zhao, Xueshan, Ziółkowski, Janusz, Reid, Mark J, Uttley, Phil, Zheng, Xueying, Byun, Do-Young, Dodson, Richard, Grinberg, Victoria, Jung, Taehyun, Kim, Jeong-Sook, Marcote, Benito, Markoff, Sera, Rioja, María J, Rushton, Anthony P, Russell, David M, Sivakoff, Gregory R, Tetarenko, Alexandra J, Tudose, Valeriu, Wilms, Joern

“…The evolution of massive stars is influenced by the mass lost to stellar winds over their lifetimes. These winds limit the masses of the stellar remnants (such…”
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A Very Long Baseline Array Trigonometric Parallax for RR Aql and the Mira Period–Luminosity Relation by Sun, Yan, Zhang, Bo, Reid, Mark J., Xu, Shuangjing, Wen, Shiming, Zhang, Jingdong, Zheng, Xingwu

“…Abstract We report Very Long Baseline Array observations of 22 GHz H 2 O and 43 GHz SiO masers toward the Mira variable RR Aql. By fitting the SiO maser…”
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Proper Motions of OH Masers and Magnetic Fields in Massive Star-forming Regions by Fish, Vincent L, Reid, Mark J

“…We present data of proper motions of OH masers in the massive star-forming regions ON 1, K3-50, and W51 Main/South. OH maser motions in ON 1 are consistent…”
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The Mass of the Black Hole in Cygnus X-1 by Orosz, Jerome A, McClintock, Jeffrey E, Aufdenberg, Jason P, Remillard, Ronald A, Reid, Mark J, Narayan, Ramesh, Gou, Lijun

“…Cygnus X-1 is a binary star system that is comprised of a black hole and a massive giant companion star in a tight orbit. Building on our accurate distance…”
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Constraints on the Proper Motion of the Andromeda Galaxy Based on the Survival of Its Satellite M33 by Loeb, Abraham, Reid, Mark J, Brunthaler, Andreas, Falcke, Heino

“…A major uncertainty in the dynamical history of the Local Group of galaxies originates from the unknown transverse speed of the Andromeda galaxy (M31) relative…”
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Comparison of Gaia DR2 Parallaxes of Stars with VLBI Astrometry by Xu, Shuangjing, Zhang, Bo, Reid, Mark J., Zheng, Xingwu, Wang, Guangli

“…We compare the parallaxes of stars from VLBI astrometry in the literature to those in the Gaia DR2 catalog. Our full sample contains young stellar objects,…”
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CONFIRMATION VIA THE CONTINUUM-FITTING METHOD THAT THE SPIN OF THE BLACK HOLE IN CYGNUS X-1 IS EXTREME by Gou, Lijun, McClintock, Jeffrey E, Remillard, Ronald A, Steiner, James F, Reid, Mark J, Orosz, Jerome A, Narayan, Ramesh, Hanke, Manfred, Garcia, Javier

“…In Gou et al., we reported that the black hole primary in the X-ray binary Cygnus X-1 is a near-extreme Kerr black hole with a spin parameter a sub(*) > 0.95…”
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Interstellar Hydroxyl Masers in the Galaxy. II. Zeeman Pairs and the Galactic Magnetic Field by Fish, Vincent L, Reid, Mark J, Argon, Alice L, Menten, Karl M

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The Trigonometric Parallax of Cygnus X-1 by Reid, Mark J, McClintock, Jeffrey E, Narayan, Ramesh, Gou, Lijun, Remillard, Ronald A, Orosz, Jerome A

“…We report a direct and accurate measurement of the distance to the X-ray binary Cygnus X-1, which contains the first black hole to be discovered. The distance…”
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Radio Photospheres of Long-Period Variable Stars by Reid, Mark J, Menten, Karl M

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