Product: Bulletin B
IERS Bulletin B Number 459 - Version metadata

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IERS Bulletin B provides current information on the Earth's orientation in the IERS Reference System. This includes Universal Time, coordinates of the terrestrial pole, and celestial pole offsets.
IERS Bulletin B consists of 5 sections:

Section 1:
Daily final values at 0:00 UT of x, y, UT1-UTC, dX, dY, and their uncertainties. Time span: one month with final values, one month with preliminary values.

Section 2:
Daily final values at 0:00 UT of celestial pole offsets dPsi and dEps in the IAU 1980 system and their uncertainties.

Section 3:
Earth angular velocity (daily estimates of LOD and OMEGA with their uncertainties).

Section 4:
Information on the time scales and announcement of occurring leap seconds.

Section 5:
Average formal precision of the individual and combined series contributing or not to the combination and their agreement with the combination.

Format

ASCII
Format Description

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ftp://hpiers.obspm.fr/iers/bul/bulb_new/bulletinb.pdf
Documentation

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Title

IERS Bulletin B Number 459
Data

Section 1: Year[yyyy],Month [mm], Day [dd], MJD, x [marcsec], y [marcsec], UT1-UTC [ms], dX [marcsec], dY [marcsec],x err[marcsec], y err[marcsec],UT1 err[marcsec], X err[marcsec], Y err[marcsec],

Section 2: Year[yyyy],Month [mm], Day [dd], MJD, dPsi1980[marcsec],dEps1980[marcsec],sig dPsi[marcsec],sig dEps[marcsec]

Section 3: Year[yyyy],Month [mm], Day [dd], MJD,LOD[ms],sigma[ms],OMEGA[mas/ms],sigma[mas/ms],

Section 4: TAI - UTC [s],

Section 5: RMS of x [marcsec], y [mas ], UT1 [ms], LOD[ms], dX [marcsec], dY [marcsec], Number of points
Data Points

Section 1: 61
Section 2: 31
Section 3: 31
Time Start

Section 1: 2026-03-02
Section 2: 2026-03-02
Section 3: 2026-03-02
Time End

Section 1: 2026-05-01
Section 2: 2026-04-01
Section 3: 2026-04-01
Time Interval

Section 1: 60
Section 2: 30
Section 3: 30
Accuracy 
-Section 1:                  min        max        avg
       sigma_X [mas]       0.030      0.039      0.036
       sigma_Y [mas]       0.032      0.048      0.040
  sigma_UT1-UTC [ms]       0.0075     0.0715     0.0233
      sigma_dX [mas]       0.031      0.989      0.149
      sigma_dY [mas]       0.034      0.144      0.074
Section 2:
    sigma_dPSI [mas]       0.079      7.359      2.526
    sigma_dEPS [mas]       0.034      4.784      1.337
Section 3:                  min                max                avg
      sigma_LOD [ms]       0.0064             0.0142             0.0103
sigma_OMEGA [mas/ms]       0.00000000111      0.00000000247      0.00000000179
Keywords

EOP, monthly, BULLETIN B, Earth orientation parameter, Number 459
Frequency

monthly
Source

http://hpiers.obspm.fr/iers/bul/bulb_new/bulletinb.459
Created by

IERS Earth Orientation Centre
Date

2026-05-01
Contact

services.iers@obspm.fr
Distribution

onLine
Email Subscription

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Number

459