IAU standards – its future

Future IERS Products Implementation of the IAU 2000 Resolutions

On one hand, the new resolutions will have an impact on the software packages used by the analysis centers of the various services (IVS, IGS, ILRS, IDS) to compute their EOP series and the definition and conventions concerning the EOP estimates to be reported to the IERS and, on the other hand, there will be an impact on the IERS products themselves. In this paper we will mainly focus on the la...

Beyond the standard IAU framework

We discuss three conceivable scenarios of extension and/or modification of the IAU relativistic resolutions on time scales and spatial coordinates beyond the Standard IAU Framework. These scenarios include: (1) the formalism of the monopole and dipole moment transformations of the metric tensor replacing the scale transformations of time and space coordinates; (2) implementing the parameterized...

IAU XXIX General Assembly

Body Solar system bodies are observed at many scattering angles. The reflection and polarization change withphase angle of light scattered from particulates has been studied for a century in the lab in efforts tounderstand clouds, aerosols, planetary ring systems and planetary regoliths. These effects must beunderstood in order to infer surface properties from astronomical data. The...

Standards: Engaging for the Future

realism and its standards

realism is one of the main concepts of the philosophy that has several meanings and there is no standard application for it in the philosophical texts. issues and problems concerning this concept are numerous and belong to the several contexts such as ontology, semantics, epistemology, logic, methodology, and ethics. therefore, in the definition of this concept you can find several criterions a...