The burst-rejection routine often throws out the last few seconds of my data, even when the count-rate plots show no increase in the flux. Whats up?
This may not be an error. If the observation ended as the spacecraft moved into the SAA or the target approached the earth limb, the resulting rise in the background count rate may be interpreted as a mild burst. (Because the count-rate plots are logarithmic, small changes in the count rate may be hard to see.) In any event, it is easy to stop this behavior by tinkering with the keywords that control the burst-rejection algorithm. Details may be found in The CalFUSE Pipeline Reference Guide.
