Our
ultimate goal is to compare the radiation temperatures seen by the witness
plate and DANTE.
A
higher-order comparison involves the spectra incident on the two
locations.
DANTE is much farther from the source in the experiment than is the
witness plate, resulting
in a spectrum much colder, or lower, than the spectrum of the witness plate (Figure 11).
To make a meaningful comparison, we can boost up the spectrum seen by DANTE (Figure 12), according to the temperature
that would be obtained if the observed
radiation filled 2p steradians.
Figure 11
Figure 12
