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Overview, Formulation and Current Situation for Precession-Nutation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

N. Capitaine
N. Capitaine*
Affiliation:
Observatoire de Paris, URA1125, 61, avenue de l’Observatoire, 75014 Paris, France E-mail: [email protected]

Abstract

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This paper describes the conventional models for precession and nutation, the current procedure for taking them into account in the reduction of highly accurate observations, the recent IAU recommendations on this topic, as well as the current situation for theory and observations. This emphasizes the imperfections in the conventional models and in the current procedure which are not in consistency either with the adoption of the new International Conventional Celestial Reference System (ICRS) or with the high accuracy and resolution of the current observations of Earth rotation. This addresses the question of the adoption of a new formulation and of an improved model combining precession and nutation of the equator with respect to the ICRS as well as the adoption of a revised definition of the Celestial Ephemeris Pole.

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. 153 - 157
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1998

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