A new LMC K-band distance from precision measurements of nearby red   clump stars
  High-precision (sigma < 0.01) new JHK observations of 226 of the brightest and nearest red clump stars in the solar neighbourhood are used to determine distance moduli for the LMC. The resulting K- and H-band values of 18.47\pm0.02 and 18.49\pm0.06 imply that any correction to the K-band Cepheid PL relation due to metallicity differences between Cepheids in the LMC and in the solar neighborhood must be quite small. 
C. D. Laney, M. D. Joner and G. Pietrzynski
astro-ph.SR astro-ph.CO