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Contents
List of Figures
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1. Overview
2. Performance
2.1 Detector Geometry
2.1.1 Field of View
2.1.2 Plate Scale
2.2 Spatial Response
2.2.1 Absolute Positions
2.2.2 Preflight measurements
2.2.3 In-flight Point Spread Functions (PSF)
2.2.4 The HRI aspect timing bug in SASS processing
2.2.4.1 Affected Data
2.2.4.2 Effects on SASS products
2.2.4.3 Fixes
2.2.4.4 The PRF
2.3 Effective Area
2.3.1 On-axis Effective Area
2.3.2 Off-axis Effective Area
2.3.3 Long-term stability
2.3.4 Source Count Rates
2.4 Background
2.5 Spectral Response
2.5.1 Spatial Gain Variations
2.5.2 Temporal Gain Variations
2.5.3 Corrections for Spatial and Temporal Gain
2.5.4 Spectral Response Matrix
2.5.5 Hardness Ratios
2.6 UV Response
2.7 Event Timing
2.8 High Voltage Increase
2.9 Hotspot appearance
2.9.1 General
2.9.2 Spatial
2.9.3 Temporal
2.9.4 PHA
2.9.5 Viewing and Deleting
3. Feasibility of observations
3.1 General Assumptions
3.2 Point Source Sensitivity
3.2.1 Flux of a Source - Gaussian Statistics Case
3.2.2 Existence of a Source - Poissonian Statistics Case
3.2.3 Detection of Previously Unknown Sources Over a Field
3.3 Expected Count Rates
3.3.1 Blackbody spectrum example
3.3.2 Power-law spectrum example
3.3.3 Raymond-thermal spectrum example
3.4 Time Variability Studies
3.5 Comparison to the
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