Table 1 Estimated FCN parameters and comparison with some recent results from the analysis of VLBI and gravity data.

From: Parameters of the Earth’s Free Core Nutation from Diurnal Strain Tides

Author

Data

TFCN

QFCN

Rosat et al.10

gravity

429 ± 3(a)

7,762 to 31,989(b)

Krásná et al.12

VLBI

431.18 ± 0.10(a)

Chao & Hsieh53

VLBI

441 ± 4.5(c)

Vondrák & Ron15

VLBI

431.46 ± 0.04(a)

19,500 ± 200(a)

Rosat et al.11

VLBI

430.48 to 431.28(d)

15,392 to 16,866(d)

Rosat et al.11

gravity

397 to 516(d)

7,763 to 323,888(d)

Nurul Huda et al.16(e)

VLBI

431.33 ± 0.15(a)

\(17,{346}_{-414}^{+395}\)(f)

this work(g)

strain

429.1 (420.4 to 438.0)

11,492 (3,392 to 7.2 × 107)

  1. TFCN is in sideral days. Notes: (a)Formal error; (b)90% confidence interval; (c)1σ from Monte Carlo simulations; (d)95% confidence interval; (e)Mean values between the complete direct and indirect procedures, as obtained from Table 4 in;16 (f) from \({\log }_{10}({Q}_{FCN})\) formal error; (g)Median and 95% confidence interval, as obtained after stacking histograms in Fig. 4c.