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UV Transmission of the PSPC Window and the UV Quantum Efficiency of the PSPC

     

Thin foils such as the PSPC entrance window   can be UV transmitting    despite a lexan coating; the UV transmission is concentrated in a relatively small spectral range around 1700 Å ( tex2html_wrap_inline16831 7eV) where the mass absorption coefficient of polypropylene has a local minimum. During the ROSAT calibration phase, the A-type stars tex2html_wrap_inline16833 Leo and tex2html_wrap_inline16835 Car were observed for approx. 2000s each and not detected.



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