Implications of the Galactic aberration for CRF

Our analysis has shown that our current knowledge of these two factors is sufficient to compute the correction of the GA with an accuracy better than 10 per cent. The remaining effect at the level of a few tenths {mu}as/yr is negligible nowadays. Another consequence of introducing the GA correction is the necessity to return to classical astrometric modelling of the extragalactic radio source position - derived by very-long-baseline interferometry (VLBI) - by the linear trend model.

Changing the current paradigm of the VLBI-derived CRF, based on the assumption of zero motion of radio sources, to classical one leads to bias in the radio source positions of up to several tens of {mu}as for a catalogue at epoch J2000.0.