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The Suzaku Technical Description
Version: November 15, 2005
Announcement of Opportunity #1
Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS/JAXA)
and the
Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Copies of this guide are available in
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postscript
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formats.
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
1.
Introduction
2. Mission Description
2.1 A Brief Introduction to
Suzaku
2.2 Operational Constraints of
Suzaku
2.2.1 Raster-scanning
2.2.2 Telemetry rates
2.2.3 Summary
2.3
Suzaku
Calibration
3. Observation Policies
3.1 Data Rights
3.2 Target of Opportunity (TOO) proposals
3.3 Pointing constraints
3.4 Sequence of events after submission
4. Guide to Writing A
Suzaku
Proposal
4.1 Ingredients of a Successful
Suzaku
Proposal
4.2 Using PIMMS and WebPIMMS
4.3 Using XSPEC to Simulate an Observation
4.3.1 Using WebSPEC to Simulate an Observation
4.4 Examples
4.4.1 Detecting Faint Oxygen Emission from the Local Hot Bubble
4.4.2 Detecting the hard tail of an XRB
4.4.3 Measuring the Reflection Component of an AGN
4.5 XISSIM
4.6 Using Viewing
4.7 Using MAKI
4.8 Guide to Using the RPS
4.9 Checklist
4.10 Additional Requirements for US Proposers
5. X-Ray Telescopes (XRTs)
5.1 Basic Components of XRT
5.1.1 Reflectors
5.1.2 Pre-collimator
5.1.3 Thermal Shields
5.2 XRT-I Performance in Orbit
5.2.1 Focal Positions and Angular Resolutions
5.2.2 Optical Axes, Effective Area and Vignetting Functions
5.2.3 Stray Light
6. X-ray Imaging Spectrometer (XIS)
6.1 Overview of the XIS
6.2 CCD Pixels and Coordinates
6.3 Pulse Height Determination, Residual Dark-current Distribution, and Hot Pixels
6.4 On-board Event Analysis
6.5 Data Processing Modes
6.5.1 Clock Modes
6.5.2 Window and Burst Options
6.5.3 Editing Modes
6.5.4 Discriminators
6.6 Photon pile-up
6.7 XIS background rate and the telemetry limit
6.7.1 Out-of-time events
6.7.2 Day Earth Contamination
6.8 Radiation Damage and On-board Calibration of the XIS
7. Hard X-ray Detector
7.1 GSO/BGO Counter Units
7.2 PIN Diodes
7.3 HXD field of view
7.4 HXD Background and Sensitivity
7.5 Data analysis procedure
7.6 The Anti-coincidence counters as a Wide-band All-sky Monitor (WAM)
A. Acronyms
B. SWG Target List
B.1 Targets Sorted by Category
B.1.1 Calibration
B.1.2 Gamma-Ray Burst
B.1.3 Galactic Compact Objects
B.1.4 Galactic Diffuse Emission
B.1.5 Extragalactic Compact Sources
B.1.6 Extragalactic Diffuse Sources
B.2 Targets Sorted by RA
C. Important Web/e-mail/postal addresses
About this document ...
Michael Arida 2005-11-18
