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Article Contents
1 Introduction
2 Considerations for the computation of the Earth Rotation Angle and Sidereal Time
3 Computation of the quantity s
4 Computation of Greenwich Sidereal Time
5 Comparison between new and classical transformation
6 Comparison between new and current estimation of UT1
7 Expressions to implement the IAU 2000 definition of UT1
8 Practical implementation of the new definition of UT1
9 Concluding remarks
Appendix A: Offsets at J2000
Appendix B: Comparison with the 1982 expression for GMST
References

List of tables
List of figures

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