A liquid-helium-cooled absolute reference cold load for long-wavelength radiometric calibration
Design, radiometric and thermal performance, and operation of a large diameter (78 cm) liquid-helium-cooled blackbody absolute reference cold load (CL) for the calibration of microwave radiometers is described. CL provides an absolute calibration near the liquid-helium (LHe) boiling point, with tota...
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ftnasantrs:oai:casi.ntrs.nasa.gov:19930053926 2023-05-15T14:04:19+02:00 A liquid-helium-cooled absolute reference cold load for long-wavelength radiometric calibration Bensadoun, Marc Witebsky, Chris Smoot, George De Amici, Giovanni Kogut, AL Levin, Steve Unclassified, Unlimited, Publicly available Oct. 1992 http://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=19930053926 unknown http://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=19930053926 Accession ID: 93A37923 Copyright Other Sources 35 Review of Scientific Instruments; 63; 10, p; p. 4377-4389. 1992 ftnasantrs 2012-02-15T20:08:36Z Design, radiometric and thermal performance, and operation of a large diameter (78 cm) liquid-helium-cooled blackbody absolute reference cold load (CL) for the calibration of microwave radiometers is described. CL provides an absolute calibration near the liquid-helium (LHe) boiling point, with total uncertainty in the radiometric temperature of less than 30 mK over the 2.5-23 cm wavelength operating range. CL was used at several wavelengths at the South Pole, Antarctica and the White Mountain Research Center, California. Results show that, for the instruments operated at 20-, 12-, 7.9-, and 4.0 cm wavelength at the South Pole, the total corrections to the LHe boiling-point temperature (about 3.8 K) were 48 +/-23, 18 +/-10, 10 +/-18, and 15 +/-mK. Other/Unknown Material Antarc* Antarctica South pole South pole NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) South Pole |
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Design, radiometric and thermal performance, and operation of a large diameter (78 cm) liquid-helium-cooled blackbody absolute reference cold load (CL) for the calibration of microwave radiometers is described. CL provides an absolute calibration near the liquid-helium (LHe) boiling point, with total uncertainty in the radiometric temperature of less than 30 mK over the 2.5-23 cm wavelength operating range. CL was used at several wavelengths at the South Pole, Antarctica and the White Mountain Research Center, California. Results show that, for the instruments operated at 20-, 12-, 7.9-, and 4.0 cm wavelength at the South Pole, the total corrections to the LHe boiling-point temperature (about 3.8 K) were 48 +/-23, 18 +/-10, 10 +/-18, and 15 +/-mK. |
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A liquid-helium-cooled absolute reference cold load for long-wavelength radiometric calibration |
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A liquid-helium-cooled absolute reference cold load for long-wavelength radiometric calibration |
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A liquid-helium-cooled absolute reference cold load for long-wavelength radiometric calibration |
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A liquid-helium-cooled absolute reference cold load for long-wavelength radiometric calibration |
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liquid-helium-cooled absolute reference cold load for long-wavelength radiometric calibration |
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