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The aim of this paper is to analyze the orientation errors of a celestial reference system. These errors can be obtained by analyzing the differences between the observed and calculated positions for a set of selected minor planets. The classical methods do not work well if the sample is non-homogeneous on the region covered by the observations. In this paper a new algorithm based on a new class of spatial estimators and an appropriate reconstruction operator is proposed.
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López, J.A., Marco, F.J. & Martinez, M.J. A Numerical Method for the Dynamical Correction of Celestial Reference Frames from Non-Regular Samples. J Math Model Algor 4, 265–273 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10852-005-9003-4
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