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SWAP Bake-out campaign

From October 12 10:30 till October 13 10:30 SWAP was in a so-called bake-out campaign with the telescope detector heated to 50C. In previous months, the sensitivity of the detector was slowly degrading (in the order of few %) . With the current bake-out campaign we attempt to reverse this degradation. The detector heating can possibly evaporate condensation from the detector or annihilate radiation induced crystal defects in the silicon of the detector. Future analysis will reveal if the bake-out campaign indeed has a positive effect.