Dear Ray et al.
My apologies I have a dinner engagement at that time and will be able to
connect. Have a good meeting.
--
Best regards,
Frank
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On Tue, 5 Jul 2011, Ray F. Cowan wrote:
> Hi Gentlemen,
>
> This week we'll hold our LQS meeting on Thursday, July 7, at 2:00 PM Eastern.
>
> We'll take round-table reports and continue our discussion from last week
> on the recent astro-ph preprint concerning an improved measurement of the
> distance to Cygnus X-1 by means of a radio frequency parallax measurement:
>
> Reid et al., "The Trigonometric Parallax of Cygnus X-1", arXiv:1106.3688
> [astro-ph].
>
> The authors report a measurement uncertainty of about 6% of the 1.86 kpc
> distance, an improvement of more than a factor of two over the previous
> result. I find it interesting that a direct, trigonometric distance
> measurement with that accuracy can be made at 6000 light-years. Note that
> one of the authors is from MIT.
>
> As usual, our call-in number the local ReadyTalk access number for your
> country (US: 866-740-1260, or check www.readytalk.com). Access code
> is 3144955.
>
> Thank you,
> --Ray
>
