Contents

• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Changes Since AO-7
• 3. Mission Description
  • 3.1 Brief Introduction to Suzaku
  • 3.2 Operational Constraints
    • 3.2.1 Telemetry Rates
    • 3.2.2 Summary
  • 3.3 Calibration
  
  
• 4. Observation Policies
  • 4.1 Data Rights
  • 4.2 Target of Opportunity Proposals
  • 4.3 Pointing Constraints
  • 4.4 Events After Submission
  
  
• 5. Writing A Successful Suzaku Proposal
  • 5.1 First Checks
    • 5.1.1 Viewing
    • 5.1.2 Previous Observations
  • 5.2 Proposal Ingredients
  • 5.3 PIMMS & WebPIMMS
  • 5.4 XSPEC Simulations
    • 5.4.1 WebSPEC Simulations
  • 5.5 Examples
    • 5.5.1 Faint Oxygen Emission from the Local Hot Bubble
    • 5.5.2 Hard Tails of XRBs
  • 5.6 XISSIM
  • 5.7 MAKI
  • 5.8 RPS
  • 5.9 Checklist
  • 5.10 Additional Requirements for US Proposers
  
  
• 6. X-Ray Telescopes (XRT)
  • 6.1 Basic XRT Components
    • 6.1.1 Reflectors
    • 6.1.2 Pre-Collimator
    • 6.1.3 Thermal Shields
  • 6.2 In-Flight Performance
    • 6.2.1 Focal Positions
    • 6.2.2 Optical Axis
    • 6.2.3 Effective Area
    • 6.2.4 Vignetting
    • 6.2.5 Angular Resolution
    • 6.2.6 Stray Light
  
  
• 7. X-Ray Imaging Spectrometer (XIS)
  • 7.1 XIS Overview
    • 7.1.1 XIS Basics
    • 7.1.2 XIS Components
    • 7.1.3 CCD Pixels & Coordinates
    • 7.1.4 Major Events
  • 7.2 XIS Observation Planning
    • 7.2.1 User Options
    • 7.2.2 Systematic Observational Effects and their Mitigation
  • 7.3 XIS Performance & Calibration
    • 7.3.1 Spaced-Row Charge Injection (SCI)
    • 7.3.2 Energy Gain and Resolution
    • 7.3.3 Contamination & Low Energy Quantum Efficiency Degradation
    • 7.3.4 Non X-Ray Background
    • 7.3.5 Flux Calibration
    • 7.3.6 Putative Micro-Meteorite Hits
  • 7.4 XIS Onboard Processing
    • 7.4.1 Pulse Height Determination & Hot Pixel Rejection
    • 7.4.2 On-Board Event Analysis
    • 7.4.3 Discriminators
  
  
• Bibliography
• 8. Hard X-Ray Detector (HXD)
  • 8.1 GSO/BGO Counter Units
  • 8.2 PIN-Si Diodes
  • 8.3 HXD Field of View
  • 8.4 In-Orbit HXD Background
  • 8.5 Background Modeling
    • 8.5.1 PIN Background Model
    • 8.5.2 GSO Background Model
    • 8.5.3 Theoretical Sensitivity
  • 8.6 Data Analysis Procedure
  • 8.7 Wide-Band All-Sky Monitor (WAM)
  
  
• A. Acronyms
• B. Important Web/E-Mail Addresses