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We present a comparison of the diurnal and subdiurnal terms of the three last theories of rigid Earth's rotation: SMART97, RDAN97 and REN 2000. For a better interpretation of the observations, we characterize their contribution to the polar motion and we estimate the non-rigid effects, which are at the level of a few microarcseconds.
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Folgueira, M., Bizouard, C. & Souchay, J. Diurnal and subdiurnal luni-solar nutations: comparisons and effects. Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy 81, 191–217 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1013290523560
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