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International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service

International Celestial Reference System (ICRS)

Acronym: ICRS

The ICRS is the conceptual basis for celestial positions.

It is aligned with respect to extremely distant objects and utilizes the theory of general relativity to order (v/c)4.

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