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Journal
Preprints and USNO Technical Notes
- Kaplan, G. H. (2003): "Another Look at Non-Rotating Origins", submitted
to proceedings of IAU XXV Joint Discussion 16: The International
Celestial Reference System, Maintenance and Future Realizations
(U.S. Naval Observatory).
PDF (896K) - Kaplan, G. H. (2005): "Celestial Pole Offsets: Conversion from (dX,dY)
to (dpsi,deps)", U.S. Naval Observatory technical note.
PDF (103K)
Journal
Reprints
The text of technical papers that have been published by a journal cannot always be provided online because the journal publisher, in many cases, retains the copyright. Subject to availability, paper reprints of the following papers (single copies without charge) can be obtained by e-mailing a request to reprints@aa.usno.navy.mil. Be sure to include a complete mailing address.
- Van Flandern T. C., Pulkkinen, K. F. (1979): "Low-Precision Formulae for Planetary Positions", 1979, Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, Vol. 41, pp. 391-411.
- Hilton, J. L., Seidelmann, P. K., Liu Ciyuan (1988):
"Analysis of Ancient Chinese Records of Occultations Between
Planets and Stars," Astronomical Journal, Vol. 96,
pp. 1482-1493.
PDF (1943K) - Kaplan, G. H., Hughes, J. A., Seidelmann, P. K., Smith, C. A., (1989): "Mean and Apparent Place Computations in the New IAU System. III. Apparent, Topocentric, and Astrometric Places of Planets and Stars", Astronomical Journal, Vol. 97, pp. 1197-1210.
- Kaplan, G. H. (1990): "Astrometric Interferometry - Can It Establish a Fundamental System?", in Inertial Coordinate System on the Sky, ed. J. H. Lieske and V. K. Abalakin (Kluwer, the Netherlands), pp. 241-250.
- Hilton, J. L. (1991): "The Motion of Mars' Pole: I. Rigid
Body Precession Nutation," Astronomical Journal, Vol.
102, pp. 1510-1527.
PDF (2603K) - Hilton, J. L. (1992) "The Motion of Mars' Pole: II. The
Effect of an Mantle and a Liquid Core," Astronomical
Journal, Vol. 103, pp. 619-637.
PDF (3690K) - Hilton, J. L., Seidelmann, P. K., and Liu Ciyuan (1992):
"An Examination of the Change in the Earth's Rotation Rate from
Ancient Chinese Lunar Occultations of the Planets,"
Astronomical Journal, Vol. 104, pp. 2250-2252.
PDF (437K) - Doggett, L. E., Schaefer, B. E. (1994): "Lunar Crescent Visibility", Icarus, Vol. 107, pp. 388-403.
- Kaplan, G. H. (1995): "Practical Sailing Formulas for Rhumb-Line Tracks on an Oblate Earth", Navigation, Vol. 42, No. 2, pp. 313-326.
- Kaplan, G. H. (1995): "Determining the Position and Motion of a Vessel from Celestial Observations", Navigation, Vol. 42, No. 4, pp. 631-648.
- Hilton, J. L., Seidelmann, P. K., Middour, J. (1996): "Prospects
for Determining Asteroid Masses", Astronomical Journal,
Vol. 112, pp. 2319-2329.
PDF (1510K) - Kaplan, G. H. (1996): "The Motion of the Observer in Celestial
Navigation", Navigator's Newsletter, Issue 51 (Spring 1996),
pp. 10-14.
PDF (113K) or
PostScript (100K). - Kaplan, G. H. (1996): "A Navigation Solution Involving Changes
to Course and Speed", Navigation, Vol. 43, No. 4, pp. 469-482.
PDF (203K) or
PostScript
(213K).
- Hilton, J. L. (1997): "The Mass of the Asteroid 15 Eunomia from
Observations of 1313 Berna and 1284 Latvia", Astronomical Journal
, Vol. 114, pp. 402-408.
PDF (883K) or
PostScript (2068K) - Murison, M.A. (1997): "Analytical Study of Optical Wavefront
Aberrations Using Maple", MapleTech, Vol. 4, No. 2,
pp. 52-62.
LANL astro-ph Abstract PDF (353K)
PostScript (684K)
Maple worksheet (210K)
PDF of Maple worksheet (441K) - Kaplan, G. H. (1998): "High Precision Algorithms for
Astrometry: A Comparison of Two Approaches", Astronomical Journal,
Vol. 115, pp. 361-372.
PDF (672K)
PostScript
(647K)
PDF of poster paper summarizing most of this investigation (312K) - Hilton, J. L. (1999): "U.S. Naval Observatory Ephemerides of
the Largest Asteroids", Astronomical Journal, Vol.
117, pp. 1077-1086.
PDF (199K)
HTML (with supplemental
plots) - Chambers, J. E., Murison, M. A. (2000): "Pseudo-High-Order Symplectic Integrators", Astronomical Journal, Vol. 119, pp. 425-433.
- Kaplan, G. H., Makarov, V. V. (2003): "Astrometric Detection of Binary Companions and Planets: Acceleration of Proper Motion", Astronomische Nachrichten, Vol. 324, pp. 419-424.
- Efroimsky, M., Goldreich, P. (2003): "Gauge Symmetry of the N-Body
Problem in the Hamilton-Jacobi Approach", Journal of Mathematical
Physics, Vol. 44, pp. 5958-5977.
PDF (277K) - Hilton, J. L., Hohenkerk, C. Y. (2004): "Rotation Matrix from the Mean
Dynamical Equator and Equinox at J2000.0 to the ICRS",
Astronomy & Astrophysics, Vol. 413, pp. 765-770.
PDF (143K) - Efroimsky, M., Goldreich, P. (2004): "Gauge Freedom in the N-Body
Problem of Celestial Mechanics", Astronomy & Astrophysics,
Vol. 415, pp. 1187-1199.
PDF (261K) - Efroimsky, M. (2005): "Long-Term Evolution of Orbits About a Precessing Oblate Planet: 1. The Case of Uniform Precession", Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy, Vol. 91, pp. 75-108.
- Makarov, V. V., Kaplan, G. H. (2005): "Statistical Constraints for Astrometric Binaries with Nonlinear Motion", Astronomical Journal, Vol. 129, pp. 2420-2427.
- Hilton, J. L. (2005): "Improving the Visual Magnitudes of the Planets in the Astronomical Almanac", Astronomical Journal, Vol. 129, pp. 2902-2906.
