1. In-flight status of the X-ray observatory Suzaku
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Hideaki Katagiri, Ryo Shibata, Naomi Ota, T. Mihara, Mitsuhiro Kohama, J. A. Nousek, Yukikatsu Terada, T. Furusho, T. Kotani, Kazuo Makishima, Kazutami Misaki, Tadayuki Takahashi, Motoko Suzuki, Chiho Matsumoto, A. E. Szymkowiak, D. McCammon, I. M. Harrus, Ikuya Sakurai, T. Tamagawa, Y. Uchiyama, Martin J. L. Turner, J. Hiraga, Makoto Tashiro, F. Makino, Hideyuki Mori, Naohisa Anabuki, Y. Ishisaki, N. Yamamoto, Hironori Matsumoto, Koji Mori, Günther Hasinger, Una Hwang, R. Smith, James Reeves, Shinichiro Uno, Kazutaka Yamaoka, Hitoshi Negoro, Isamu Hatsukade, Toshio Murakami, Wilton T. Sanders, John P. Hughes, Daisuke Yonetoku, Yuichiro Ezoe, Shiro Ueno, Shigeo Yamauchi, Keith C. Gendreau, Yuzuru Tawara, Lorella Angelini, Marshall W. Bautz, T. Kamae, Kazuhisa Mitsuda, Yasushi Fukazawa, Alex Markowitz, Kenzo Kinugasa, Takashi Okajima, Caroline A. Kilbourne, H. Tomida, John P. Doty, A. C. Fabian, Kai Wing Chan, Hiroshi Murakami, M. Matsuoka, A. N. Parmar, Tahir Yaqoob, J. Kotoku, Y. Tsuboi, N. Isobe, K. Hamaguchi, Atsumasa Yoshida, M. Ueno, Aya Kubota, Takayuki Tamura, K. Ebisawa, Yang Soong, Y. Urata, Richard E. Griffiths, K. Mukai, K. R. Boyce, Akihiro Furuzawa, Koji Nakazawa, Shunji Kitamoto, H. Moseley, N. E. White, Y. Ogawara, Gregory V. Brown, H. Ozawa, F. Scott Porter, Y. Ogasaka, Yasuyuki T. Tanaka, Fumiaki Nagase, M. Namiki, Ann Hornschemeier, E. Figueroa, Takayoshi Kohmura, Masayuki Itoh, R. L. Kelley, Ryuichi Fujimoto, W. D. Pence, Robert Petre, Manabu Ishida, H. Tsunemi, T. Oshima, Mikio Morii, Keisuke Tamura, Yuichi Terashima, Kiyoshi Hayashida, Patrick Henry, Takaya Ohashi, Hideyo Kunieda, P. J. Serlemitsos, Noriko Y. Yamasaki, R. F. Mushotzky, Yoshitomo Maeda, Tsunefumi Mizuno, Madoka Kawaharada, Hisamitsu Awaki, Kazuya Koyama, Emi Miyata, Koujun Yamashita, Aya Bamba, K. Matsushita, Yoh Takei, Yoshito Haba, Jun Kataoka, Shin Watanabe, K. A. Arnaud, Y. Tsujimoto, Ken'ichi Torii, M. Ozaki, N. Iyomoto, George R. Ricker, Hajime Inoue, G. M. Madejski, Takeshi Go Tsuru, Atsushi Senda, N. Kawai, Motohide Kokubun, Steven E. Kissel, Haruyoshi Katayama, Yoshihiro Ueda, Makoto Yamauchi, Hiromitsu Takahashi, Tadayasu Dotani, S. M. Kahn, Jean Cottam, S. S. Holt, and Keisuke Shinozaki
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Physics ,Telescope ,X-ray astronomy ,Spectrometer ,Observatory ,law ,Detector ,Astronomy ,Satellite ,Astrophysics ,Circular orbit ,law.invention ,South Atlantic Anomaly - Abstract
We report in-flight status of the X-ray detectors on board the Suzaku observatory, the 5th X-ray astronomy satellite of Japan launched on July 10, 2005. Suzaku is equipped with two types of instruments: one is the X-ray imaging spectrometers (XISs) and the other is hard X-ray detector (HXD). XIS utilizes the X-ray CCD camera in combination with the grazing-incidence X-ray telescope. HXD is a non-imaging, hybrid detector utilizing Si PIN diodes and GSO/BGO phoswich counters. Suzaku takes a low-earth, circular orbit with an altitude of 560 km and an inclination of 31 deg. This means that Suzaku goes through the south atlantic anomaly about 1/3 of its revolutions. This has a large impact on the in-flight performance of XIS and HXD, which is reported in detail in the present paper.
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- 2007
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