Title: Relativistic Celestial Mechanics and Reference Frames
Abstract: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 f...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”).Read More