Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Dec 2007
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007aas...21113223m&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #211, #132.23; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 39, p.965
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
The Supernova Acceleration Probe, or SNAP, is a proposed satellite mission that will study dark energy to better understand what is driving the universe's accelerated expansion. One of the goals of SNAP is to control systematic color uncertainties to less than 2%. The work described here is directed at the development of a flight calibration illumination system for SNAP that minimizes systematic errors in color. The system is based on LEDs as the illumination lamps. LEDs are compact, long-lived, and low power illuminators, which make them attractive for space missions lasting several years. This poster discusses optical measurements of pulsed, thermally controlled LEDs obtained from commercial vendors.
Measurements over short (over the span of one day) and long (over the span of weeks) time scales have shown that the irradiance of the LEDs we tested is constant at the 0.3% level. In these measurements we paid particular attention to the influence of junction heating. Measurements of LED irradiance versus the duty cycle of the pulsed LED show that in general the LED irradiance increases as the junction temperature increases. Additionally, the FWHM of the spectrum also increases as the temperature increases. However, measurements of LED irradiance versus temperature as regulated a by a thermal controller circuit, show that the LED irradiance decreases as the temperature increases.
This work has been supported by the National Science Foundation under grant AST-0452975 (REU-Site to Indiana U.).
Baptista Brian
Misra Amit
Mostek Nick
Mufson Stuart
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