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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
Michael Arida 2005-11-18