학술논문
In-flight status of the X-ray observatory Suzaku
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Conference
Author
Dotani, T.; Mitsuda, K.; Bautz, M.; Inoue, H.; Kelley, R. L.; Koyama, K.; Kunieda, H.; Makishima, K.; Ogawara, Y.; Petre, R.; Takahashi, T.; Tsunemi, H.; White, N. E.; Anabuki, N.; Angelini, L.; Arnaud, K.; Awaki, H.; Bamba, A.; Boyce, K.; Brown, G. V.; Chan, K.-W.; Cottam, J.; Doty, J.; Ebisawa, K.; Ezoe, Y.; Fabian, A. C.; Figueroa, E.; Fujimoto, R.; Fukazawa, Y.; Furusho, T.; Furuzawa, A.; Gendreau, K.; Griffiths, R. E.; Haba, Y.; Hamaguchi, K.; Harrus, I.; Hasinger, G.; Hatsukade, I.; Hayashida, K.; Henry, P. J.; Hiraga, J. S.; Holt, S. S.; Hornschemeier, A.; Hughes, J. P.; Hwang, U.; Ishida, M.; Ishisaki, Y.; Isobe, N.; Itoh, M.; Iyomoto, N.; Kahn, S. M.; Kamae, T.; Katagiri, H.; Kataoka, J.; Katayama, H.; Kawai, N.; Kawaharada, M.; Kilbourne, C.; Kinugasa, K.; Kissel, S.; Kitamoto, S.; Kohama, M.; Kohmura, T.; Kokubun, M.; Kotani, T.; Kotoku, J.; Kubota, A.; Madejski, G. M.; Maeda, Y.; Makino, F.; Markowitz, A.; Matsumoto, C.; Matsumoto, H.; Matsuoka, M.; Matsushita, K.; McCammon, D.; Mihara, T.; Misaki, K.; Miyata, E.; Mizuno, T.; Mori, K.; Mori, H.; Morii, M.; Moseley, H.; Mukai, K.; Murakami, H.; Murakami, T.; Mushotzky, R.; Nagase, F.; Namiki, M.; Negoro, H.; Nakazawa, K.; Nousek, J. A.; Okajima, T.; Ogasaka, Y.; Ohashi, T.; Oshima, T.; Ota, N.; Ozaki, M.; Ozawa, H.; Parmar, A. N.; Pence, W. D.; Porter, F. Scott; Reeves, J. N.; Ricker, G. R.; Sakurai, I.; Sanders, W. T.; Senda, A.; Serlemitsos, P.; Shibata, R.; Shinozaki, K.; Soong, Y.; Smith, R.; Suzuki, M.; Szymkowiak, A. E.; Takahashi, H.; Takei, Y.; Tamagawa, T.; Tamura, K.; Tamura, T.; Tanaka, Y.; Tashiro, M.; Tawara, Y.; Terada, Y.; Terashima, Y.; Tomida, H.; Torii, K.; Tsuboi, Y.; Tsujimoto, Y.; Tsuru, T.; Turner, M. J. L.; Uchiyama, Y.; Ueda, Y.; Ueno, S.; Ueno, M.; Uno, S.; Urata, Y.; Watanabe, S.; Yamamoto, N.; Yamaoka, K.; Yamasaki, N. Y.; Yamashita, K.; Yamauchi, M.; Yamauchi, S.; Yaqoob, T.; Yonetoku, D.; Yoshida, A.
Source
2007 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2007. NSS '07. IEEE. 4:2526-2531 Oct, 2007
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ISSN
1082-3654
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 GSOBGO 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 113 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.