PERFORMANCE VERIFICATION AND CALIBRATION OF SUPERCONDUCTING SUBMILLIMETER-WAVE LIMB-EMISSION SOUNDER (SMILES)

被引:2
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作者
Ochiai, S. [1 ]
Irimajiri, Y. [1 ]
Kikuchi, K. [2 ]
Nishibori, T. [2 ]
Sano, T. [2 ]
Sato, R. [2 ]
Manabe, T.
Ozeki, H. [3 ]
Shiotani, M. [4 ]
机构
[1] Natl Inst Informat & Commun Technol, Tokyo 1848795, Japan
[2] Japan Aerosp Explorat Agcy, 2-1-1 Sengen, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 3058505, Japan
[3] Toho Univ, Chiba 2748510, Japan
[4] Kyoto Univ, RISH, Kyoto 6110011, Japan
关键词
SMILES; microwave radiometer; international space station; radiometric calibration; field-of-view calibration;
D O I
10.1109/IGARSS.2010.5654162
中图分类号
P [天文学、地球科学];
学科分类号
07 ;
摘要
Superconducting Submillimeter-Wave Limb-Emission Sounder (SMILES) has been operated on orbit since late September 2009. The on-orbit performance of the SMILES submillimeter receiver satisfied the specifications and demonstrated a high capability of superconducting technology for atmospheric science by providing an invaluable low-noise atmospheric limb-emission spectral data in 640-GHz band. The accuracy of the limb spectral data are going to be improved by radiometric calibration based on the instrumental knowledge measured on the ground and measurements on orbit. The observation by SMILES was unfortunately halted because of a failure of the submillimeter-wave local oscillator on 21 April 2010.
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页码:4275 / 4277
页数:3
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