Measurement time and statistics for a noise thermometer with a synthetic-noise reference

Metrologia

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 395-405

  White, D R ^a,b,c   Benz, S P ^a   Labenski, J R ^a,b,d   Nam, S W ^a   Qu, J F ^a,b   Rogalla, H ^a,b   Tew, W L ^a,d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NIST

^c CALLAGHAN INNOVATION   (New Zealand)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; CORRELATORS; RANDOM ERRORS; RANDOM PROCESSES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TEMPERATURE MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; TEMPERATURE SENSORS; THERMOMETERS;

NOISE THERMOMETERS; PSEUDO-RANDOM NOISE; REFERENCE SIGNAL;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 51349107420     PISSN: 00261394     EISSN: 16817575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0026-1394/45/4/004     Document Type: Article

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