The papers are not specifically about showing the accuracy of SOFA or IAU equations. Please copy and paste any relevant sections rather than directing us to a bunch of random articles which contain the word IAU.
Good grief Tom! You are getting REALLY desperate!
Just stop and think about what you're saying for a moment:
You're saying that the official software for calculating the motion of bodies in the solar system - provided by the most respected source of such information for all astronomers around the world is
INCORRECT (and not just by a little bit) and not one of all of the tens of thousands of astronomers who are members or affiliated members of the IAU, or any of the engineers who use SOFA (as I do) has ever noticed the discrepancy?
It's like an astronomer would say "
Huh! I got up early today to look at the photos my telescope took - and wouldn't know it? The darned sun went and rose an hour early (compared to SOFA's predictions) and screwed up my observations of the atmosphere of Venus....Oh well, never mind...I'll just try again tomorrow."
No! It would be like "
HOLY COW! THE SUN ROSE AN HOUR TOO EARLY! SOFA clearly has a HORRIBLE BUG in it! I must rush over to the IAU website and report it...and if they ignore it - I can write a paper about how the equations they use are screwed up! Every astronomer needs to know about this as a matter of urgency!"
Or probably more like "
The sun clearly doesn't behave in a manner consistent with the Earth being Round!!!!!! I'll get a nobel prize for proving it - a lot of other people are going to notice this! I'd better get in first by writing a paper to Nature right away!".
Truly - if the Earth really is Flat - it
**MUST** produce absolutely identical sunrise and sunset times (moonrise and moonset, Mars-rise and Mars-set, etc) compared to RET mathematical predictions (and therefore to SOFA, TimeAndDate and all of the other sites like that). If it did not - then a million scientists of all kinds would have noticed the error and jumped in to try to explain it.
The science journals would be brimming over with disproofs of the Round Earth - it would be all over the news...EVERYONE would know about it...Nobel prizes would be awarded.
The only possible way that you can be correct about the Earth being flat is if your hokey ideas, broken geometry and pseudo-math produce results that match PRECISELY the results you'd get if the Earth was round.
If sunrise and sunset numbers (and moon and planet and star positions) differed by as much a millisecond or a milli-arcsecond from the IAU's theoretical values - WE'D KNOW ABOUT IT.
Why can't you comprehend this?
When scientists (and software writers) find a discrepancy - that just made their day! They tell everyone...it's all over their news feeds within minutes. If a scientist can find a flaw in "The Way Things Work" compared to theory - then that's their ticket to fame and fortune. That's a meal ticket for life.
Consider Einstein - he found a problem in the most solidly believed theories of all time (Newton's laws of motion)...within a couple of years, he was famous around the world - he had a job for life in Princeton.
Nobody...and especially not the IAU...could get away with an error of the magnitude it would take for the real-world different sunrise and sunset times to differ from those that mainstream RET predicts.