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What dead times are included in the corrections?

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There are two types of deadtimes included in the corrections:

  1. instrument (due to the finite amount of time needed to process a pulse, which is a function of the pulse height and width) and
  2. telemetry (due to the finite amount of time needed to store and to transmit the data).

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