FOS Instrument Science Report 103

"Background Due to Scattered Light"
by A.L. Kinney and R.C. Bohlin

Abstract excerpted from the report:
	Like all dispersing optics, the FOS gratings and prism produce a diffuse
	component of scatterd light that adds to the detected counts per second.
	The pipeline currently subtracts only the dark count background and
	should be changed to include the scattered light contribution to the
	background.  For the gratings which have regions of no sensitivity, 
	those regions can provide a more accurate measure of total background
	than currently used.


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