Hot spot
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Apparatus errors often result in some sensor parts giving a permanently high signal (or signal above threshold). They may, for instance, be due to dark currents in a sensor, or defective transmission. Depending on context, one talks about hot pixels, hot channels, or hot spots or spikes in a geometrical distribution.