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sensitivity (esensitivity-1.5) [xmmsas_20050815_1803-6.5.0]

... source[*]
The detection box usually excludes a significant portion of the Point Spread Function or PSF of the source. 
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... images.[*]
Note that, although the name eboxdetect starts with an `e', the detection stage is not EPIC- nor even XMM-specific. The only EPIC-specific part of the sensitivity algorithm is the conversion from counts-in-box to full count rate, because this requires knowledge of the PSF. This is taken care of by econvolverprep. 
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... row[*]
This row represents more or less the average of the column values from the individual bands, although columns such as SCTS are simply summed to give the summary-row value. 
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