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Nutation and reference frame

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 March 2016

N. Capitaine
N. Capitaine*
Affiliation:
Observatoire de Paris, URA1125 61, avenue de l’Observatoire 75014 Paris, France

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The reference frames are of fundamental importance in all kinds of the precession and nutation studies involving the theory, the coordinate transformation and the observations. The aim of this paper is to review all the frames used in such studies and to lead to a better consistency between them in order that theory and reductions of observations be referred, as close as possible, to the frames to which observables are actually sensitive.

The equations of Earth rotation can be expressed either as Euler equations in the Terrestrial Reference System (TRS), or as perturbation theory in the Celestial Reference System (CRS) (Kinoshita 1977). Euler equations are transformed to the CRS in the astronomical approach (Woolard 1953) and solved by the method of variation of the parameters, whereas, in the geophysical approach (Melchior 1971), the solutions, first obtained in the TRS, are transformed to the CRS and then solved by an integration with respect to time.

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II. Joint Discussions
Information
Highlights of Astronomy , Volume 10: Highlights of Astronomy. As presented at the XXIInd General Assembly of the IAU, 1994 , 1995 , pp. 228 - 231
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1995

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