<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>In the previous investigation (Pashkevich, 2013) the high-precision Rigid Earth Rotation Series (designated RERS2012) dynamically adequate to the JPL DE406/LE406 (Standish, 1998) ephemeris over 2000 and 6000 years were constructed. The main aim of present research is improvement of the Rigid Earth Rotation Series RERS2012 by using the JPL DE422/LE422 (Folkner, 2011) ephemeris, and as a result is produced construction of the new high-precision Rigid Earth Rotation Series dynamically adequate to the JPL DE422/LE422 ephemeris over 2000 and 6000 years. The discrepancies in Euler angles between the high-precision numerical solutions and the semi-analytical solutions of the rigid Earth rotation problem are investigated by least squares and spectral analysis methods using the iterative algorithm (Pashkevich, 2013). In order to demonstrate the good convergence of this iterative algorithm are constructed additional solutions of the rigid Earth rotation dynamically adequate to the JPL DE422/LE422 over 2000 years by improvement solutions SMART97 (Bretagnon et al., 1998) and S9000 (Pashkevich and Eroshkin, 2005a). As the results of this investigation, the new improved high-precision Rigid Earth Rotation Series RERS2013 dynamically adequate to the DE422/LE422 ephemeris over 2000 and 6000 years have been constructed. The discrepancies in Euler angles between the numerical solution and RERS2013 do not surpass: 4 uas over 2000 years, 1 mas over 6000 years. The RERS2013 series is more accurate than the RERS2012 series, which is dynamically adequate to the DE406/LE406 ephemeris. The good convergence of the iterative algorithm of this study has been confirmed.</p></abstract>

In the previous investigation (Pashkevich, 2013) the high-precision Rigid Earth Rotation Series (designated RERS2012) dynamically adequate to the JPL DE406/LE406 (Standish, 1998) ephemeris over 2000 and 6000 years were constructed. The main aim of present research is improvement of the Rigid Earth Rotation Series RERS2012 by using the JPL DE422/LE422 (Folkner, 2011) ephemeris, and as a result is produced construction of the new high-precision Rigid Earth Rotation Series dynamically adequate to the JPL DE422/LE422 ephemeris over 2000 and 6000 years. The discrepancies in Euler angles between the high-precision numerical solutions and the semi-analytical solutions of the rigid Earth rotation problem are investigated by least squares and spectral analysis methods using the iterative algorithm (Pashkevich, 2013). In order to demonstrate the good convergence of this iterative algorithm are constructed additional solutions of the rigid Earth rotation dynamically adequate to the JPL DE422/LE422 over 2000 years by improvement solutions SMART97 (Bretagnon et al., 1998) and S9000 (Pashkevich and Eroshkin, 2005a). As the results of this investigation, the new improved high-precision Rigid Earth Rotation Series RERS2013 dynamically adequate to the DE422/LE422 ephemeris over 2000 and 6000 years have been constructed. The discrepancies in Euler angles between the numerical solution and RERS2013 do not surpass: 4 uas over 2000 years, 1 mas over 6000 years. The RERS2013 series is more accurate than the RERS2012 series, which is dynamically adequate to the DE406/LE406 ephemeris. The good convergence of the iterative algorithm of this study has been confirmed.

RERS2013: A New High-precision Rigid Earth Rotation Series

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In the previous investigation (Pashkevich, 2013) the high-precision Rigid Earth Rotation Series (designated RERS2012) dynamically adequate to the JPL...

RERS2013: A New High-precision Rigid Earth Rotation Series

Pubblicato online: 05 set 2014

Pagine: 161 - 177

Ricevuto: 13 dic 2013

Accettato: 29 ago 2014

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/arsa-2014-0013

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