Intercomparison of radiation temperature measurements over the temperature range from 1600 K to 3300 K

Abstract

An intercomparison of radiation temperature measurements was performed at VNIIOFI during October 2000 using a pyrolytic graphite blackbody operating over the temperature range from 1600 K to 3300 K. A pyrometer and two photometers from VNIIOFI, a pyrometer and four broadband glass filter detectors from PTB, and two narrow-band interference filter based radiometers and a broadband glass filter radiometer from NPL were used to perform the temperature measurements in either radiance or irradiance mode. Across almost the entire temperature range the VNIIOFI, NPL and PTB instruments showed results within the combined standard measurement uncertainties.