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Astronomical Effects of Current Changes in Fundamental Astrometric References

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

J. Kovalevsky  and
D. McCarthy
J. Kovalevsky
Affiliation:
OCA/CERGA - UMR/CNRS 6527 Av. Copernic, F 06130-Grasse, France
D. McCarthy
Affiliation:
U.S. Naval Observatory 3450 Massachusetts Ave, Washington DC 20390, USA

Abstract

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We present a first description of the changes in the current procedures that will have to be performed in order to take into account the adoption of the ICRS as the new reference system and new nutation-precession series. A number of choices will have to be made: they are presented in this paper.

Type
II. Joint Discussions
Information
Highlights of Astronomy , Volume 11 , Issue 1: Highlights of Astronomy. As presented at the XXIIIrd General Assembly of the IAU (Part A), 1997 , 1998 , pp. 182 - 186
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1998

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