The stills merge dropped every observation with a saturated pixel. On a still the saturated
observations are the fully recorded ones of the strongest low-resolution reflections, so what
survived were their partial observations, whose partiality correction then set the merged
intensity: on clipped CCD stills the merged low-resolution intensities came out at 0.4-0.6x of
the deposited ones, a ramp no Wilson B absorbs, invisible to CC1/2 and R_split.
The pixels are really clipped (flat-topped plateaus a few per mille wide, a pile-up in the
pixel-value histogram from the per-pixel ADC limit), so the auto ceiling is right; the drop was
the defect. A still now keeps the observation: the box sum with every saturated pixel counted at
the saturation limit, unflagged and marked clipped, counted in BraggIntegrationCounts and
reported as OVERLOADED_REFLECTIONS_KEPT. Rotation data (IsRotationIndexing) are unchanged and
keep the flag for the rocking-event drop.
Measured on a clipped-CCD stills subset (dimple R-free, deposited free set): dropped 0.247,
lower bound 0.230 (same as switching saturation off). A Kabsch fit to the unsaturated wings read
lower than the lower bound (0.237), and inflating the lower bound's sigma lost (0.255).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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