Correction to the precession constant from optical observations of extragalactic sources.

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Feb 1997

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Astronomy and Astrophysics, v.318, p.653-656

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Astrometry, Reference Systems, Radio Continuum: Galaxies

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The rediscussion of the precession constant was performed by optical observations of the counterparts of extragalactic radio sources with longer observational intervals. After a reduction of the optical catalogue systems, the fictitious `proper motions' of extragalactic radio sources were obtained in the FK5 system. On the assumption that these fictitious `proper motions' of extragalactic sources are the reflection of an incorrect value of the precession constant, then the correction of precession constant can be estimated. The corrections are -2.60+/-1.35mas/yr for 43 sources and -3.35+/-1.62mas/yr for 24 sources, respectively. If the improvement of the 18.6-year nutation term is considered in the data processing, the corrections of the precession constant are -2.91+/-1.38mas/yr and -3.52+/-1.68mas/yr, respectively. The results were also compared with those from VLBI.

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