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Improved Models for Precession and Nutation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

P.M. Mathews
P.M. Mathews*
Affiliation:
Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Madras, Chennai 600025, India

Abstract

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The modeling of nutations and precession has advanced to the point where the rms of residuals between theory and the observational estimates from the VLBI data of the past decade is only 0.16 mas in Δψ sin є0 as well as in Δє. Such a fit is provided by the MHB2000 nutation series (Mathews et al., 2000) based on geophysical theory with a few basic Earth parameters estimated by a fit to nutation-precession data, and its accompanying precession rate. A brief account of the series is presented, along with an outline of the theoretical background and of the geophysical information of interest obtained in the process of constructing the series. A series due to Shirai and Fukushima (2000) also gives a somewhat comparable fit to data, improving on the IERS 1996 series, but it is essentially empirical and provides no geophysical insights.

Type
Section 2. Improved Definitions and Models
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 180: Towards Models and Constants for Sub-Microarcsecond Astrometry , March 2000 , pp. 212 - 222
Copyright
Copyright © US Naval Observatory 2000

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