The empirical Earth rotation model from VLBI observations

Details The empirical Earth rotation model from VLBI observations The empirical Earth rotation model from VLBI observations

2006-11-26

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0611781v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics, volume 467, pages 359-369, 2007

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

15 pages, 10 figures, Published in Astronomy and Astrophysics. For numerical tables see http://vlbi.gsfc.nasa.gov/erm

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20065091

AIMS: An alternative to the traditional method for modeling kinematics of the Earth's rotation is proposed. The purpose of developing the new approach is to provide a self-consistent and simple description of the Earth's rotation in a way that can be estimated directly from observations without using intermediate quantities. METHODS: Instead of estimating the time series of pole coordinates, the UT1--TAI angles, their rates, and the daily offsets of nutation, it is proposed to estimate coefficients of the expansion of a small perturbational rotation vector into basis functions. The resulting transformation from the terrestrial coordinate system to the celestial coordinate system is formulated as a product of an a priori matrix of a finite rotation and an empirical vector of a residual perturbational rotation. In the framework of this approach, the specific choice of the a priori matrix is irrelevant, provided the angles of the residual rotation are small enough to neglect their squares. The coefficients of the expansion into the B-spline and Fourier bases, together with estimates of other nuisance parameters, are evaluated directly from observations of time delay or time range in a single least square solution. RESULTS: This approach was successfully implemented in a computer program for processing VLBI observations. The dataset from 1984 through 2006 was analyzed. The new procedure adequately represents the Earth's rotation, including slowly varying changes in UT1--TAI and polar motion, the forced nutations, the free core nutation, and the high frequency variations of polar motion and UT1.

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