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Top of Article |
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INTRODUCTION |
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DATA |
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ANALYSIS SOFTWARE |
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PREPARATION FOR ANALYSIS |
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CONFIGURATION OF THE ICRF ANALYSIS |
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RELEVANT ESTIMATED AUXILIARY PARAMETERS |
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Nutation and Precession Corrections and the Orientation of the Pole |
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Time Variation of Source Coordinates |
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Tropospheric Delay Modeling and Azimuthal Gradients |
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SOURCES OF ERROR |
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Statistical Validity of the Formal Errors |
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Modeling Errors and Data Editing |
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An Identifiable Systematic Error |
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ASTROPHYSICAL CAUSES FOR SOURCE POSITION VARIATIONS |
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ESTIMATION OF REALISTIC ERRORS |
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CATEGORIZATION OF SOURCES |
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ORIENTATION OF THE ICRF |
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THE ICRF CATALOG |
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ADOPTION OF THE ICRF BY THE INTERNATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL UNION |
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EVOLUTION OF THE ICRF |
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REFERENCES |
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References to This Article |
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Tables |
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