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The histogram of 2000 dark images on a log scale. The exponential tail from the spurious charge can easily be seen. For this particular example the sum of the number of counts of the blue columns is approximately 4% of the sum of the red columns. The scale length of the tail is related to the electron multiplication gain, in accordance with Eq. (3).

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