List of Tables

• 2.1. Overview of Suzaku capabilities
• 2.2. Error Budgets of Scientific Instrument Calibrations
• 3.1. Suzaku percentage (first line) and actual ks (second line) of time allocated to each group of observers The ESA time is in parentheses as it is part of the Japanese allotment.
• 5.1. Telescope Dimensions and Parameters of XRT-I
• 5.2. Design Parameters for Pre-collimator
• 5.3. Best-fit parameters of the power law model to the Crab spectra taken in 2005 September 15-16.
• 5.4. Best-fit parameters of the contemporaneous power-law fit to the Crab spectra taken in 2005 September 15-16.
• 6.1. Effective area and exposure time for different burst and window options
• 6.2. Major XIS Background Emission Lines
• 6.3. Total count rate which causes prescribed fraction of pile-up at the annulus of the PSF
• 6.4. Telemetry allocation (kbit/s)
• 6.5. Typical event size after compression (byte)
• 6.6. Telemetry limits (cts/s/XIS)
• 6.7. Recommended XIS modes for a diffuse source
• 6.8. Recommended XIS modes for a point source