Radiometric Calibration of the HIRDLS Flight Instrument from Pre-launch Calibration Data
Proceedings of SPIE the International Society for Optical Engineering 5152 (2003) 231-237
Authors:
TD Eden, JC Gille, JJ Barnett, P Arter, CL Hepplewhite, CWP Palmer, DM Peters, REJ Watkins, JG Whitney
Abstract:
Results from a pre-launch radiometric calibration of the 21-channel HIRDLS instrument will be presented. These data were obtained during the pre-launch calibration of HIRDLS at Oxford University (Fall 2002). Two external blackbody cavities were used to generate temperatures between ∼90 K to ∼320 K. These blackbodies were located, along with HIRDLS, inside a large vacuum chamber. Data were taken at three different focal-plane temperatures (61 K, 66 K, and 71 K). This paper will cover a variety of details; such as, data-taking procedures, analysis methodology, and the resulting linearity analyses.
