The INPOP10a planetary ephemeris and its applications in fundamental physics

By A. Fienga, Jacques Laskar, P. Kuchynka, H. Manche, G. Desvignes, Mickaël Gastineau, I. Cognard, G. Theureau. 2011

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Compared to the previous INPOP versions, the INPOP10a planetary and lunar ephemeris has several improvements. For the planets of our Solar System, no big change was brought in the dynamics but improvements were implemented in the fitting process, the data sets used in the fit and in the selection of fitted parameters. We report here the main characteristics of the planetary part of INPOP10a like the fit of the product of the solar mass with the gravitational constant ($${{\rm GM}_{\odot}}$$) instead of the astronomical unit. Determinations of PPN parameters as well as adjustments of the Sun J2 and of asteroid masses are also presented. New advances of nodes and perihelia of planets were also estimated and are given here. As for INPOP08, INPOP10a provides to the user, positions and velocities of the planets, the Moon, the rotation angles of the Earth and the Moon as well as TT-TDB Chebyshev polynomials at http://www.imcce.fr/inpop.

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Time scale controversy: Accurate orbital calibration of the early Paleogene (2012, methodology): “The construction of INPOP10a [Fienga et al., 2011] has now demonstrated that the long-term behavior of INPOP08 [Fienga et al., 2009] is not as good as the one of INPOP06 [Fienga et al., 2008], which is closer to INPOP10a [Fienga et al., 2011] which is used as a reference for La2011.”
Relativistic effects and dark matter in the Solar system from observations of planets and spacecraft (2013, methodology): “In (Fienga et al., 2011) based on the INPOP10a planetary ephemeris these parameters were determined separately fixing one of these two values, either β = 1, or γ = 1.”
General Relativity and Cosmology: Unsolved Questions and Future Directions (2016, background): “They include experiments such as laser ranging off the Moon (lunar laser ranging) and several of the Earth’s artificial satellites [372–375], and proposals to extend laser ranging to other planets in the Solar System (planetary laser ranging) [376–380], radar astrometry on near-Earth objects [381], ”
Solar system constraints on f(T) gravity (2012, methodology): “In order to preliminarily2 infer upper bounds on bothΛ and α, we compare (22),(23) for some planets to the supplementary rates of change∆ ˙̟ of their perihelia̟, listed in Table 1, determined from observations by Fienga et al. (2011) with the INPO10a ephemerides.”