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Intrinsic Resolution of the PSPC

     

Pre-flight PANTER calibration tests confirmed that this component is well approximated by a Gaussian, as expected from the statistics of the primary electron generation process, i.e.,

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The derived analytical form for the width of the gaussian, tex2html_wrap_inline16993 , as a function of energy is given by:

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