The VMC Survey - XXXIII. The tip of the red giant branch in the Magellanic Clouds

M. A. T. Groenewegen, M. -R. L. Cioni, L. Girardi +6

In this paper JK_s data from the VISTA Magellanic Cloud (VMC) survey are used to investigate the tip of the red giant branch (TRGB) as a distance indicator. A linear fit to recent…