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Q2: During the 8 Feb 2024 WOH, he the user asked Q3: "What causes the black dots in the MIRI MRS channel 2 image below?". Experts suggested it was likely due to bad pixels. The bad pixel map was recently updated so their guidance was to rerun the pipeline using the updated files. The user was able to get rid of most of the weird spots with that advice; however, some were still appearing in the data. Then, when extracting spectra from regions with low SNR, they were finding spectra with negative flux (specifically in channel 1, which doesn't have many lines for their source). Their science and background data were equally deep, so they used pixel-wise background subtraction, but even using master background subtraction, they are still seeing a negative flux. Is this potentially caused by the way the mask was applied? 

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