Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the Hipparcos team of scientists and engineers who, over the last two decades, have worked to obtain significant advances in the determination of precision parallaxes and proper motions.

We also thank Geoff Clayton, Louisiana State University, for discussions about the new RCB stars discovered in the MACHO project LMC variable star inventory, and Floor van Leeuwen, RGO, for comments on the unusual parallax for Y Muscae.

The space velocities were obtained using software developed by Jovan Skuljan in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at the University of Canterbury.

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