Radiometer

Requirements

• Sensitive to fireballs (mag -4) with a SNR of at least 10dB
• Will provide calibrated brightness in apparent magnitude without observations from other sensors or absolute magnitude with trajectory data
• Bandwidth from DC to at least 1kHz, but ideally capable of more
• Low power (able to add to a DFNEXT observatory without changing power system)
• Less than $1000 per station
• Able to be used by a wide variety of users as standalone instruments and add-ons for fireball cameras
• Absolute timing precision that makes sense relative to the sample rate and no worse than the DFN observatories

Resulting Capabilities

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Paper Plan

Authors: Robert, Stuart, Hadrien or Stuart, Robert, Hadrien

• Abstract
• Introduction
  • Background
  • Objective
  • Motivation
  • Approach
• Prior Solutions
  • MORP
  • Prairie
  • Czech
  • Low cost
• Radiometer
  • Requirements
  • Concept Design
  • Design Evolution
  • Problems
• Results
  • Sensitivity
  • SNR
  • Spectrum
  • Bandwidth
  • Cost
  • DATA
  • Availability/open source?
• Conclusions
  • Future Work
    • Multispectral
    • Cubesat