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Report of the IAU WGAS Sub-group on Issues on Time

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 March 2016

P.K. Seidelmann
P.K. Seidelmann*
Affiliation:
U.S. Naval Observatory Washington, DC 20392U.S.A.

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Included in the nine adopted recommendations of the IAU Working Group on Reference Systems (Hughes, et. al., in 1991), were recommendations for the introduction of Geocentric Coordinate Time (TCG) and Barycentric CoordinateTime (TCB), the renaming of the Terrestrial Dynamical Time (TDT) as Terrestrial Time (TT), and the approval to continue the use of Barycentric Dynamical Time (TDB) when that is desirable. The relationships between these different time scales and the reason for their introduction was given by Seidelmann and Fukushima (1992). Since it was recognized that there were some unresolved issues as a result of these recommendations, a subcommittee of the Working Group on Astronomical Standards was established for Issues on Time.

Type
II. Joint Discussions
Information
Highlights of Astronomy , Volume 10: Highlights of Astronomy. As presented at the XXIInd General Assembly of the IAU, 1994 , 1995 , pp. 193 - 196
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1995

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