Relativistic Celestial Mechanics and Reference Frames
- 1 January 1991
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in International Astronomical Union Colloquium
- Vol. 127, 50-62
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0252921100063569
Abstract
A new formalism for treating the relativistic celestial mechanics of systems of N, arbitrarily composed and shaped, weakly self-gravitating, rotating, deformabile bodies is presented. This formalism is aimed at yielding a complete description, at the first post-Newtonian approximation level, of (i) the global dynamics of such N-body systems (“external problem”), (ii) the local gravitational structure of each body (“internal problem”), and, (iii) the way the external and the internal problems fit together (“theory of reference systems”).Keywords
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