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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 proposals
3.3 Pointing constraints
3.4 Sequence of events after submission
4. Guide to Writing A Successful Suzaku Proposal
4.1 First checks to do before starting
4.1.1 Using Viewing
4.1.2 Previous Observations
4.2 Ingredients of a Successful Suzaku Proposal
4.3 Using PIMMS and WebPIMMS
4.4 Using XSPEC to Simulate an Observation
4.4.1 Using WebSPEC to Simulate an Observation
4.5 Examples
4.5.1 Detecting Faint Oxygen Emission from the Local Hot Bubble
4.5.2 Detecting the hard tail of an XRB
4.6 XISSIM
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 In-flight Performance
5.2.1 Focal Positions
5.2.2 Optical Axis
5.2.3 Effective Area
5.2.4 Vignetting
5.2.5 Angular Resolution and Aspect Error
5.2.6 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 and Hot Pixel Rejection
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 Spaced-row Charge Injection
6.6.1 Principle of the Spaced-row Charge Injection
6.6.2 Applicable Modes
6.6.3 Impacts on the Data
6.7 Degradation of Low Energy Efficiency
6.8 Non-X-ray background
6.9 Notes on the XIS observations
6.9.1 Photon pile-up
6.9.2 Out-of-time events
6.9.3 Day Earth Contamination
6.9.4 Telemetry limit
6.10 Guideline for the XIS clock/editing mode selection
6.11 In-flight Calibration of XIS
6.11.1 Charge Transfer Efficiency and Energy Scale
6.11.2 Energy Resolution and Pulse Height Distribution Function
6.11.3 Quantum Efficiency
7. Hard X-ray Detector
7.1 GSO/BGO Counter Units
7.2 PIN-Si Diodes
7.3 HXD Field of View
7.4 In-Orbit background of PIN and GSO
7.5 Background modeling and current reproducibility
7.6 Data analysis procedure
7.7 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 addresses
Michael Arida 2006-10-30