Suzaku is the fifth Japanese X-ray astronomy satellite. It was developed under Japan-US international collaboration and was launched on July 10, 2005, from JAXA Uchinoura Space Center. If this is your first visit to our site, please also look at ISAS/JAXA official Suzaku page and Suzaku Learning Center at NASA/GSFC. As for information before launch, please visit Astro-E2 page.

General Information

Suzaku Spies Treasure Trove of Intergalactic Medium (2009-12-04)

Recently astronomers used the Suzaku orbiting X-ray observatory, operated jointly by NASA and the Japanese space agency, to discover the largest known reservoir of rare metals in the universe. Suzaku detected the elements chromium and manganese while observing the central region of the Perseus galaxy cluster. The metallic atoms are part of the hot gas, or "intergalactic medium," that lies between galaxies. NASA press release

List of general information (Suzaku Flash)

Information for Researchers

	2014-05-18 HXD-PIN background (tuned-v2.2) released
	2014-03-20 AO-8/9 Long-term schedule update
	2014-02-26 List of accepted targets in AO-9
	2013-12-11 Suzaku-MAXI Conference 2014
	2013-09-03 Announcement of AO-9

Data processing and analysis

2014-07-01 The CALDB is updated.

2013-08-06 Suzaku software v20 (Heasoft v6.14)

2010-12-14 Processing version updated (2.5.16.29)

2009-12-25 GTI cut of PIN flaring

2009-06-04 XIS energy scale in window mode

List of information for researchers (What's New)

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Int'l Conf: "Expanding the Frontiers of the X-ray Universe" February 19-22, 2014, Ehime University
Observation: AO-9 Accepted target list | Observation schedule | Observation Log
Suzaku Technical Description: HTML | PDF
Gamma-ray burst observations with HXD: Top | Introduction | GRB list| solar flare list
Questions on data analysis: Suzaku help desk

ISAS/JAXA Department of High Energy Astrophysics