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NMI TR 2 Uncertainty Analysis for the Derivation of the NML2003 Spectral Irradiance Scales Jim Gardner First edition — August 2005 Bradfield Road, Lindfield, NSW 2070 PO Box 264, Lindfield, NSW 2070 Telephone: (61 2) 8467 3600 Facsimile: (61 2) 8467 3610 Web page: .au ? Commonwealth of Australia 2005 Contents 1 Introduction 1 2 Propagation of Ratio Uncertainty Components 2 2.1 Measured Signal Ratio 2 2.2 Ratio Calculated from the Spectral Components 2 2.2.1 Offset Components 4 2.2.2 Scaling Components 4 2.2.3 Wavelength Components 4 3 Uncertainty Propagation for the Radiometer Measurements 4 3.1 McPherson Measurement System 4 3.2 Transfer between Lamp and Blackbody 5 3.3 Window Transmittance 6 3.4 Emissivity 6 3.5 Radiometer Responsivity 7 4 Results 8 Preface This document propagates uncertainties through the spectral integrals used to establish the temperature of the NMI blackbody and hence the NML scales of spectral irradiance in 2003, rigorously treating the random and systematic components of the measurement. The experimental details involved in the derivation of the scales are described in NMI TR 1. Basis of NML2003 Scale of Relative Spectral Irradiance. The uncertainty analysis in that document has a more complete treatment of the overall uncertainty, but a less rigorous treatment of the uncertainties in the spectral sums used to establish the temperature of the blackbody. Hence the analysis is presented here; the final result then adopts the remaining components from NMI TR 1 and compares the two analyses. Introduction Details of the experimental method and the filter radiometers are given in NMI TR?1. Each filter radiometer signal is (1) where is the ratio of lamp spectral irradiance to the blackbody spectral irradiance (a measured quantity) is the blackbody window transmittance (a measured quantity) is the blackbody (BB) spectral emissivity (estimated) is the calculated blackbody radiation at temperature T is the spectral responsivity of the filte