Celestial pole offsets from lunar laser ranging and comparison with VLBI

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 507, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1687-1695

  Zerhouni, W ^a   Capitaine, N ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Astrometry; Ephemerides; Moon; Reference systems

Indexed keywords

CELESTIAL REFERENCE FRAME; EPHEMERIDES; EXTERNAL CONSTRAINTS; GRAVITATIONAL PHYSICS; LIGHT PULSE; LUNAR LASER RANGING; REFERENCE SYSTEMS; TRACKING STATION; TRAVEL TIME; VERY LONG BASELINE INTERFEROMETRY; VLBI OBSERVATIONS; WEIGHTED LEAST SQUARES;

GEOPHYSICS; POLES; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; RADIO ASTRONOMY; TIME SERIES;

LUNAR SURFACE ANALYSIS;

EID: 70849116366     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: 14320746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912644     Document Type: Article

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