The X-Ray Observatory Suzaku
Hamaguchi, Kenji; White, Nicholas E.; Isobe, Naoki; Dotani, Tadayasu; Fabian, Andrew C.; Maeda, Yoshitomo; Ishida, Manabu; Petre, Robert; Kunieda, Hideyo; Haba, Yoshito; Tsujimoto, Masahiro; Okajima, Takashi; Kelley, Richard L.; Mori, Hideyuki; Yaqoob, Tahir; Yamaoka, Kazutaka; Fukazawa, Yasushi; Kokubun, Motohide; Makishima, Kazuo; Murakami, Toshio; Nakazawa, Kazuhiro; Suzuki, Motoko; Takahashi, Tadayuki; Terada, Yukikatsu; Urata, Yuji; Yamauchi, Makoto; Yoshida, Atsumasa; Ueno, Masaru; Koyama, Katsuji; Hughes, John P.; Ezoe, Yuichiro; Ohashi, Takaya; Mitsuda, Kazuhisa; Fujimoto, Ryuichi; Ricker, George R.; Gendreau, Keith; Ueda, Yoshihiro; Awaki, Hisamitsu; Terashima, Yuichi; Yamasaki, Noriko Y.; Ebisawa, Ken; Hwang, Una; Hayashida, Kiyoshi; Matsumoto, Hironori; Takahashi, Hiromitsu; Kahn, Steven M.; Bamba, Aya; Mori, Koji; Griffiths, Richard E.; Kubota, Aya; Namiki, Masaaki; Tsuru, Takeshi Go; Reeves, James N.; Anabuki, Naohisa; Yonetoku, Daisuke; Angelini, Lorella; Mukai, Koji; Brown, Gregory V.; Furuzawa, Akihiro; Hatsukade, Isamu; Hiraga, Junko S.; Hornschemeier, Ann; Inoue, Hajime; Ishisaki, Yoshitaka; Kataoka, Jun; Kawai, Nobuyuki; Kitamoto, Shunji; Kohmura, Takayoshi; Matsushita, Kyoko; McCammon, Dan; Mizuno, Tsunefumi; Murakami, Hiroshi; Ota, Naomi; Ozaki, Masanobu; Soong, Yang; Tamagawa, Toru; Tamura, Takayuki; Tanaka, Yasuo; Tawara, Yuzuru; Tomida, Hiroshi; Tsuboi, Yohko; Tsunemi, Hiroshi; Watanabe, Shin; Yamauchi, Shigeo; Mushotzky, Richard; Madejski, Greg M.; Doty, John; Tashiro, Makoto; Kamae, Tuneyoshi; Markowitz, Alex; Serlemitsos, Peter; Tamura, Keisuke; Nagase, Fumiaki; Senda, Atsushi; Matsumoto, Chiho; Miyata, Emi; Kotoku, Jun'ichi; Uno, Shin'ichiro; Smith, Randall; Hasinger, Günther; Morii, Mikio; Torii, Ken'ichi; Matsuoka, Masaru; Kohama, Mitsuhiro; Negoro, Hitoshi; Ueno, Shiro; Porter, F. Scott; Arnaud, Keith; Nousek, John A.; Katagiri, Hideaki; Kinugasa, Kenzo; Holt, Stephen S.; Cottam, Jean; Kissel, Steve; Kilbourne, Caroline; Chan, Kai-Wing; Yamamoto, Norimasa; Kotani, Taro; Yamashita, Koujun; Ogasaka, Yasushi; Shibata, Ryo; Misaki, Kazutami; Szymkowiak, Andrew E.; Ozawa, Hideki; Harrus, Ilana; Parmar, Arvind N.; Itoh, Masayuki; Oshima, Tai; Bautz, Mark; Furusho, Tae; Ogawara, Yoshiaki; Iyomoto, Naoko; Moseley, Harvey; Boyce, Kevin; Figueroa, Enectali; Henry, Patrick J.; Katayama, Haruyoshi; Makino, Fumiyoshi; Mihara, Tatehiko; Pence, William D.; Sakurai, Ikuya; Sanders, Wilton T.; Turner, Martin J. L. .
Japan, United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Netherlands
Abstract
High-sensitivity wide-band X-ray spectroscopy is the key feature of the Suzaku X-ray observatory, launched on 2005 July 10. This paper summarizes the spacecraft, in-orbit performance, operations, and data processing that are related to observations. The scientific instruments, the high-throughput X-ray telescopes, X-ray CCD cameras, non-imaging hard X-ray detector are also described.