Pender Technology -- Radiation Calculator

Radiation Calculator

Radiation Calculator is a module of Pender Technology's ADAPT software package and can be used as an integrated module within ADAPT, as a standalone application, or as an applet loaded by your web browser. In order to run the Radiation Calculator applet, you will need the Java plug-in for your web browser. If you do not already have this plug-in installed, you will be prompted to download it. Download and install the JRE version for your operating system.

Radiation Calculator provides tools to plot the Planck function in terms of either wavelength (microns) or wavenumber (cm^-1) as a line graph and an image graph. User controlled inputs are the output units (selected from the Units drop down list box), temperature (in K), and emissivity. There are three display mode options: Interactive Plot, Multi Plot, and Image. In both Interactive Plot and Image modes, when Generate is pressed a new plot or image will be generated in a new ADAPT data frame. In Multi Plot mode, when Generate is pressed a new Planck curve will be added to the most recent Multi Plot data frame. In Interactive Plot mode the Temperature, Emissivity, and x-axis Start and Stop control inputs are interactively linked to the data frame, so that as you change them the plot is automatically updated. In Image mode, Radiation Calculator will generate a false colored image with wavelength on the x-axis and temperature on the y-axis. To use the Image mode, you will need the Java Advanced Imaging extension version 1.1.1 (NOT 1.1.2).

The plots and images generated by the applet version of Radiation Calculator are opened in a simplified version of an ADAPT data frame. The full version of ADAPT has more features, but the applet version still has several tools that are useful for examining the Planck function data, such as flexible viewing modes, in-band integral calculations, and interactive profiling (in image mode).