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Caption: Figure 3.
Rogue’s gallery of 3–20 keV NuSTAR images in DET1 pixel coordinates (1 pixel = 2.″54 = 120.96 μm) for three StrayCats observations showing some of the variety of the stray light patterns in FPMA (left column) and FPMB (right columns). The primary source has been masked out, and the linear color scale shows the fluence (counts per second per square centimeter) across the FoV for each detector. (Top) One of the cases where stray light (here from the LMXB 4U 1624–490) is seen in both FPMs. (Middle) A more complex geometry where multiple overlapping or partially blocked stray light sources (the strongest being 4U 1708-40 in FPMA and 4U 1700–377 in FPMB) overlay the extended primary source (RX J1713.7–3946). (Bottom) Strong and overlapping stray light from GX 5–1 (lower SL) and GX 3+1 (upper right in FPMB).
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