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5.5.2 Red Leaks


The visible light rejection of the SBC is excellent, but users should be aware that stars of solar type or later will have a significant fraction of the detected flux coming from outside the nominal wavelength range of the detector. Details are given below, in Table 5.7.

Table 5.7: Visible-light rejection of the SBC F115LP imaging mode.
Stellar
type
Percentage of all detected photons
which have < 1800 Å
Percentage of all detected photons
which have < 3000 Å
O5
99.5
100
B1 V
99.4
100
A0 V
98.1
100
G0 V
72.7
99.8
K0 V
35.1
94.4


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