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UV transmission

Thin foils such as the PSPC entrance window can be UV transmitting despite the lexan coating; the UV transmission is concentrated in a relatively small spectral range around 1700 Å where the mass absorption coefficient of polypropylene has a local minimum. During the ROSAT calibration phase, the A-type stars tex2html_wrap_inline1966 Leo and tex2html_wrap_inline1966 Car were observed and not detected.



Michael Arida
Tue Jun 11 16:18:41 EDT 1996