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Fig. 1
Gaia focal plane, which contains 106 CCDs organised in seven rows. Stellar images travel in the along - scan direction from left to right. The 12 CCDs in green are part of the Radial Velocity Spectrometer, which will not be described any further because it is not relevant for this paper.
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