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Schematic view of the ROSAT spacecraft
The fields of view of the ROSAT PSPC, HRI and star trackers.
Aitoff projection of all-sky-survey exposure times
Data stream for a target demonstrating the Earth occultations,
etc.
Schematic cross-sectional view of the ROSAT telescope tube
Position deviations for 61 sources observed with PSPC-B
Position deviations for 28 observations of 3C279
Position deviations for 6 sources observed with the HRI
The effective area of the ROSAT XMA
Widths of the PSPC and mirror components to the PSF
ROSAT spacecraft coordinate frame
Schematic cross-sectional view of a ROSAT PSPC
Cross sections of the PSPC counter gas
Mean free path of photons in the PSPC counter gas
Rate-gain and after-pulse effects in the Crab PSPC spectrum
The energy dependence of the PSPC quantum efficiency
The PSPC window support schematic
Energy dependence of the PSPC window transmissions (ground calibration)
Modelled energy dependence of the PSPC-B window transmissions
The PSPC boron filter trans versus energy
Spatial gain correction of the PSPC as function of penetration depth and energy
Cumulative PSPC spectrum
ADC nonlinearities
Gain saturation effect of the PSPC
Temporal and gain saturation corrections of the PSPC
Residuals of a fit to the PSPC spectrum from Mkn 421
Scale factor of the ``Golden Disk'' as a function of penetration depth and energy
ROSAT spacecraft clock correlation for different periods
Schematic diagram of the WFC
Telemetered count rates in low speed and high speed telemetry modes
WFC effective area (at the time of launch)
Long-term efficiency history of the WFC
The spatial variation in WFC sensitivity
In-orbit WFC encircled energy function on-axis
In-orbit WFC encircled energy function for
Radial response profile of HZ 43 on-axis
Diagram of the SASS interfaces
Flow chart for SAV processing.
Flow chart for TEL processing.
Flow chart for TEL processing (cont'd).
Flow chart for OBI processing.
Flow chart for SEQ processing.
Flow chart for SEQ processing (cont'd).
Flow chart for SEQ processing (2 cont'd).
The bin of the Al K
line (
BAL
) as a function of time
Correction tables for ADC non-linearities
Channel difference caused by the gain saturation correction
Temporal gain correction factor
Cumulative effect of ADC corrections
vs.
measured PHA
channel
Electronic position correction for PSPC-C.
Electronic position correction for PSPC-B.
Spatial gain correction
Effect of the spatial gain correction in low-gain mode.
Spatial gain correction effect
of PSPC-B.
Spatial gain correction: effect of interchange of
x
and
y
axis
Window correction tables for PSPC-B
Window corrections
PSPC off-axis distance shift
as function of off-axis distance
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