Mean tropical year length at arbitrary ecliptic longitude

arXiv:2605.02239 · astro-ph.EP, astro-ph.IM, physics.hist-ph · Submitted 2026-05-04 · Read on arXiv

Daniel Quigley

astro-ph.EP, astro-ph.IM, physics.hist-ph

Submitted: 2026-05-04

Comments: 15 pages, 18 references, 6 figures, 5 tables; edited to fix order of magnitude, some typography, and smoothed out discussions on material throughout

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Consistency — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Terrestrial Time — 3× in this paper
• Accuracy — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Trace — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Verification — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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