Illustration of the removal process of SEP-induced disturbances (SPEs drastically influence the EDAC counters, artificially raising the calculated EDAC count rate for several months prior to and after the actual event). Panel A: Rosetta EDAC counter from January 2005 to end of mission; the blank space indicates the hibernation period and the black arrow points to an example SEP event. Panel B: close-up of the jump indicated in panel A. Panel C: smoothed and original EDAC count rates before (purple, left y-axis) and after (blue, right y-axis) removal of two distinct SEP events. We note that the original and modified count rates are plotted on different y-scales to highlight the extreme count rate values obtained if SEP events are not removed from the time series.