The DIARAD instrument

Please improve the description of the instrument! Active Cavity Radiometer

 Lifetime variation: 30 ppm/year

 Absolute calibration: 0.15%

Sampling rate: 1 solar total irradiance / 3 minutes

 Duty cycle: 11%

 Instrumental Noise

 White noise, <0.4 ppm²/uHz

 

The following instrumental corrections will be needed:

• Temperature dependence of the electronics
• De-pointing
• Thermal exchanges with the environment
• Degradation of the sensor

 

There is a home page for DIARAD!
 

Please refer to the VIRGO Operation manual for the observing sequence Last updated by Thierry Appourchaux on Thursday December 11, 1997 at 13:14