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Anelastic parameters of the mantle and Love numbers consistent with modern VLBI data

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The domain of the possible values of the mantle's anelasticity parameters and Love numbers based on modern VLBI-data is found. A new method of the joint analysis of VLBI- and tidal data is suggested, which gives possibility to obtain better estimations of the Q-factor of the free core nutation.

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    E. Groten

  2. Institute of the Physics of the Earth, Bolshaja Gruzinskaja, 10, 123810, Moscow, Russia

    S. M. Molodensky

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Groten, E., Molodensky, S.M. Anelastic parameters of the mantle and Love numbers consistent with modern VLBI data. Journal of Geodesy 70, 622–632 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00868224

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