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The bulging detector window causes a large-scale spatial
non-linearity (counter gas pressure 1.5bar, bulging 
1.2mm).
The primary electron cloud drifts along the electric field lines
which run perpendicular to the equipotential plane
(PSPC entrance window).
Thus event positions within the central ring of the window support
structure are slightly shifted towards the detector center while
for event positions outside the central ring the shift depends
on the event position.
(cf. Fig. F.12 and Fig. F.13, top)
This shifting introduces spatial non-linearities.
The shape of the correction has been determined at a photon energy
of E=0.3keV, the positional and energy-dependent effects
were assumed to be separable.
The energy-dependent term is a smooth function of the energy
(cf. Fig. F.13, bottom).
Is is normalized to unity at E=0.3keV.
In practice SASS determines the shift using a binned map with
512 
512 pixels, i.e., uses a grid of bin size 16 detector pixels
and has to interpolate between four neighboring grid point.
The interpolation of the correction vector is performed according to
Eq. (F.13) and (F.14).
Within SASS the energy dependent scale factor 
is taken from a table with 256 elements (channels).
For 
the value 
is taken instead.
Figure F.12:
Window correction tables for PSPC-B.
The `Golden Disk' (arrays 
and 
):
The position correction in x and y is plotted for every
8th's array element; the energy is assumed to be 0.93keV,
for which the energy dependent factor 
of the position
correction equals 1.0.
The origin of the displacement vector of element (n,m) is
drawn at 
.
The basic information was taken from files p$manpar:tabx_093_b.dat and p$manpar:taby_093_b.dat.
Figure F.13: Window correction data files according to Eqs.(F.13)
and (F.14): top panel: shift of coordinates for PSPC-C:
white corresponds to negative values and black to positive
(top left: 
, top right: 
). Bottom panel: energy
dependent factor 
, normalized to unity at 0.93keV.
The basic information was taken from files
p$manpar:tabx_093_c.dat, p$manpar:taby_093_c.dat, and p$manpar:scal3_new.dat.
Parameters:
] pulse height of event, corrected for ADC
non-linearity, gain saturation, temporal and
spatial variations (PI channel)
, 
, 
SASS source code: package PSPC, bubble CT, subroutine DCORW
SASS files:
for PSPC-B (Fig. F.12)
for PSPC-B (Fig. F.12)
for PSPC-B (Fig. F.13, top panel)
for PSPC-B (Fig. F.13, top panel)
(Fig. F.13, bottom panel)
