Report of the IAU/IAG Working Group on cartographic coordinates and rotational elements: 2006
By P. Seidelmann, B. Archinal, M. A’Hearn, A. Conrad, G. Consolmagno, D. Hestroffer, James L. Hilton, G. Krasinsky, G. Neumann, J. Oberst and 5 more. 2007
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Every three years the IAU/IAG Working Group on Cartographic Coordinates and Rotational Elements revises tables giving the directions of the poles of rotation and the prime meridians of the planets, satellites, minor planets, and comets. This report introduces improved values for the pole and rotation rate of Pluto, Charon, and Phoebe, the pole of Jupiter, the sizes and shapes of Saturn satellites and Charon, and the poles, rotation rates, and sizes of some minor planets and comets. A high precision realization for the pole and rotation rate of the Moon is provided. The expression for the Sun’s rotation has been changed to be consistent with the planets and to account for light travel time
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Citations in the corpus
- The SunPy Project: Open Source Development and Status of the Version 1.0 Core Package (2020, background): “…reference frame consists of the combination of two rotation angles: the time- independent angle between the Sun’s rotation axis and the HCRS celestial pole (see Seidelmann et al. 2007) and the time-dependent angle of the Sun’s central meridian (as seen from Earth) relative to the vernal equinox.”
- SEVEN-YEAR WILKINSON MICROWAVE ANISOTROPY PROBE (WMAP) OBSERVATIONS: PLANETS AND CELESTIAL CALIBRATION SOURCES (2010, methodology): “Planetary radii and north pole directions used to compute DW are adopted from Seidelmann et al. (2007); the polar and equatorial radii are listed in Table 2.”
- DAMIT: a database of asteroid models (2010, background): “The description of the spin-state given above does not follow the recommendation of the IAU as defined by Seidelmann et al. (2007), mainly because the rotation angles λ and β in Eq.”
- Report of the IAU Working Group on Cartographic Coordinates and Rotational Elements: 2009 (2011, methodology): “Clarifying what was shown in the 2006 report (Seidelmann et al. 2007, p. 177) since it is an oblate spheroid, the first and second axes are listed as being the same, different from the third axis.”