Planetary ephemerides are a good tool for studying general relativity at the scale of our solar system. We present here new evaluations of advances of perihelia for Mercury and Saturn.
CALCEPH accesses binary planetary ephemeris files, including INPOPxx, JPL DExxx ,and SPICE ephemeris files. It provides a C Application Programming Interface (API) and, optionally, a Fortran 77 or 2003 interface to be called by the application. Two groups of functions enable the access to the ephemeris files, single file access functions,...
To explain the unusual distribution of Kuiper belt objects, several authors have advocated the existence of a super-Earth planet in the outer solar system. It has recently been proposed that a 10 M⊕ object with an orbit of 700 AU semi major axis and 0.6 eccentricity can explain the observed distribution of Kuiper belt objects around Sedna. Here...
The development of precise numerical integrations of the motion of the planets, taking into account the most recent observations, lead us to improve the two families of analytical planetary theories built in the Institut de mécanique céleste et de calcul des éphémérides (IMCCE), the Variations Séculaires des Orbites Planétaires (VSOP) and the...
In this paper, are given numerical estimations of the sensitivity of the latest version of the INPOP planetary ephemerides (INPOP13c) to GR parameters: the PPN parameters β, γ, and the oblateness of the Sun J⊙2. Time variations of the gravitational mass of the Sun μ are also considered. A first estimation is obtained by fitting these parameters...
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