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. 1995 May-Jun;100(3):277–283. doi: 10.6028/jres.100.020

Table 1.

Relative standard uncertainty componentsa

Source of uncertainty Relative standard uncertainty (%)
Voltage from the main detector amplifier, Vtest 0.014
Voltage from the main detector amplifier, Vstd 0.014
Voltage from the monitor detector amplifier, Vmontest 0.014
Voltage from the monitor detector amplifier, Vmonstd 0.014
Irradiance at the test plane during meas. of unknown aperture, Eλtest 0.018
Irradiance at the test plane during meas. of standard aperture, Eλstd 0.018
Standard aperture area, Astd 0.022
Mirror reflectance nonuniformity(b) 0.01  
Sphere source aperture area (% per degree Celsius)(b)   0.0034
Corrected lamp Drift(b) <<0.01  
DVM uncertainty(b) 0.005
DVM linearity(b)   0.0035
Amplifier drift (% per dgree Celsius)(b) 0.003
Relative combined standard uncertainty of the measurement, uc,r(Atest) 0.04  
a

All uncertainties are type A.

b

Indicates a quantity which was measured for completeness but not included in the uncertainty calculations.