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New Definition for the Celestial Pole and the Celestial Origin in the ICRS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 March 2016

Nicole Capitaine
Nicole Capitaine*
Affiliation:
Observatoire de Paris, DANOF/UMR8630-CNRS, Paris, France

Abstract

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Two Resolutions have been submitted to the 24th General Assembly of the IAU concerning the definition and use of the celestial pole of reference and the celestial origin. The aim of both resolutions is to provide new parameters for Earth rotation which are consistent with the properties of the International Celestial Reference System (ICRS), adopted from 1 January 1998 as the IAU celestial reference system. The definition of the parameters have also to be consistent with the precision and the temporal resolution of the current Earth rotation measurements as well as with the theory for nutation and polar motion at the microarcsecond level. This paper explains the basis of the resolutions as well as their practical application. One of the resolutions defines the “Celestial Intermediate Pole” (CIP) in order to replace the “Celestial Ephemeris Pole” (CEP) for the new IAU precession-nutation model; its specifies the way for taking into account the constant offset from the ICRS and the high frequency terms in polar motion and nutation. The other resolution recommends the use of the “non-rotating origin” (Guinot 1979) on the moving equator, for defining Earth rotation and UT1; it also recommends the use of the celestial and terrestrial coordinates of the CIP in the transformation from the celestial to the terrestrial systems.

Type
II. Joint Discussions
Information
Highlights of Astronomy , Volume 12: Highlights of Astronomy. As presented at the XXIVth General Assembly of the IAU, 2000 , 2002 , pp. 102 - 106
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Pacific 2002

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