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Correction to: Non-invasive assessment of plasma parameters inside an ion thruster combining optical emission spectroscopy and principal component analysis

The Original Article was published on 05 August 2021

Correction to: EPJ Techn Instrum 8, 13 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjti/s40485-021-00070-x.

In the publication of the article [1], the principle component analysis section contains mixed up indices. The corrected part of the affected section is shown below.

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First, the average spectrum of the entire reference data set \(\overline{S_{\mathrm{PCA}}}(\lambda)\) is subtracted from each spectrum \(S(\lambda)\). To derive the new coordinates, i.e., the PCA-axes, the covariances \(\sigma_{ij}\) of each of the n wavelength positions with every other wavelength position (including itself) are calculated using

$$ \sigma_{ij} = \frac{1}{m}\cdot\sum _{k=0}^{m}(x_{ki}-\overline{x_{i}}) \cdot(x_{kj}-\overline{x_{j}}) \quad \text{where } \overline{x_{i}}=\overline{x_{j}}=0. $$
(1)

Here, \(x_{ki}\) and \(x_{kj}\) are the values of wavelength positions i and j of the spectrum k. Since the average intensities of each wavelength position \(\overline{x_{i}}\) and \(\overline{x_{j}}\) were already subtracted before, they are now zero.

With these covariances the covariance matrix C is set up

$$ \mathbf{C}= \begin{pmatrix} \sigma_{00} & \sigma_{01} & \cdots & \sigma_{0n}\\ \sigma_{10} & \sigma_{11} & \cdots & \sigma_{1n}\\ \vdots & \vdots & \ddots & \vdots\\ \sigma_{n0} & \sigma_{n1} & \cdots & \sigma_{nn} \end{pmatrix}. $$
(2)

All the changes that were requested are implemented in this correction and the original article [1] has been corrected.

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  1. Nauschütt BT, Chen L, Holste K, Klar PJ. Non-invasive assessment of plasma parameters inside an ion thruster combining optical emission spectroscopy and principal component analysis. EPJ Tech Instrum. 2021;8(1). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjti/s40485-021-00070-x

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Nauschütt, B.T., Chen, L., Holste, K. et al. Correction to: Non-invasive assessment of plasma parameters inside an ion thruster combining optical emission spectroscopy and principal component analysis. EPJ Techn Instrum 8, 18 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjti/s40485-021-00075-6

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