Barycentric Dynamical Time (TDB)

Barycentric Dynamical Time is one of the two barycentric time scales that lunar time work has to convert to. The LTE440 lunar time ephemeris calculates the relation of Lunar Coordinate Time to it and to Barycentric Coordinate Time.

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All thirty entries are in the glossary of lunar timekeeping.

Sources

  1. Lunar Time Ephemeris LTE440: definitions, algorithm and performance — Xu Lu, Tian-Ning Yang, Yi Xie, Purple Mountain Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences — Astronomy & Astrophysics 704, A76, . Peer-reviewed. Verified .
  2. Lunar Time Ephemeris LTE440: User Manual — Xu Lu, Tian-Ning Yang, Yi Xie — arXiv:2506.19213, . Peer-reviewed. Verified .

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