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Precession Of Orbits

Precession of Orbits is the gradual, secular rotation of the orbital ellipse of a celestial body around its primary focus, distinguished from other orbital perturbations by its long-term, cumulative change in the orientation of the orbit's pericenter within the orbital plane.

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Relativistic Precession around Rotating Neutron Stars: Effects Due to Frame Dragging and Stellar Oblateness

Sharon M. Morsink, L. Stella · The Astrophysical Journal · 1999 · 98 citations · Full text

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The long-period motion of the plane of a distant circular orbit

R. R. Allan, Gerald Cook · Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences · 1964 · 97 citations

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Motion in General Elliptic Orbit with Respect to a Dragging and Precessing Coordinate Frame

Jean Albert Kéchichian · The Journal of the Astronautical Sciences · 1998 · 79 citations

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Report of the International Astronomical Union Division I Working Group on Precession and the Ecliptic

James L. Hilton, N. Capitaine, J. Chapront et al. · Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy · 2006 · 75 citations

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Periastron precession measurements in transiting extrasolar planetary systems at the level of general relativity

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2008 · 74 citations · Full text

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    John E. Cochran

    Auburn University, United States

    2 publications · 57 citations

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    R. Greenberg

    University of Arizona, United States

    2 publications · 73 citations

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    Michael Efroimsky

    United States Naval Observatory, United States

    2 publications · 54 citations

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    G. Ares de Parga

    Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico

    2 publications · 27 citations

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  5. AA
    A. Avalos-Vargas

    Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico

    2 publications · 27 citations

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  1. United States Naval Observatory

    Flagstaff, United States

    4 h-index

    4 publications

    143 citations

  2. Observatoire de Paris

    Paris, France

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    179 citations

  3. Institut de Mécanique Céleste et de Calcul des Éphémérides

    Paris, France

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    164 citations

  4. Jet Propulsion Laboratory

    Pasadena, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    116 citations

  5. Instituto Politécnico Nacional

    Mexico City, Mexico

    2 h-index

    4 publications

    54 citations

  6. University of Arizona

    Tucson, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    48 citations

  7. Auburn University

    Auburn, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    57 citations

  8. University of Madras

    Chennai, India

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    75 citations

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  1. American Journal of Physics

    7 publications · 168 citations

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  2. Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy

    7 publications · 215 citations

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  4. The Astrophysical Journal

    ApJ · 3 publications · 165 citations

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  5. The Astronomical Journal

    AJ · 3 publications · 118 citations

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