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Suzaku (aka Astro-E2)

Astro-E
Astro-E2 was successfully launched on 12:30 pm JST on July 10, 2005 from the Uchinoura Space Center (USC) in Japan. Soon after launch, the mission was renamed Suzaku.
Suzaku is the re-build of Astro-E, which was unfortunately lost during launch (10 February 2000). Suzaku (as Astro-E) has been developed at the Japanese Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS) in collaboration with the US. This is Japan's fifth X-ray astronomy mission. Suzaku is the first satellite that carries a new type of X-ray spectrometer, the X-ray micro-calorimeter, which provides unprecedented energy resolution compared to non-dispersive instruments.

Mission Characteristics

* Lifetime : 10 July 2005 - 2 September 2015
* Energy Range : 0.2-600 keV
* Special Features : First X-ray micro-calorimeter in space
* Payload :
  • Five nested conical thin-foil grazing incidence telescopes (XRT),
    with a angular resolution of ~2 ´ (HPD); all gold-coated.
    Focal lenght : 4.75m (XRT-I, 4 units); 4.5m (XRT-S, 1 unit)
    At the focus of each telescope there is one of the following detectors :

    • X-ray Spectrometer (XRS; 0.3-12 keV; one unit)
      An X-ray micro-calorimeter composite of 32 pixels at the foci of the XRT-S.
      Eff Area 190 cm2 @ 1.5keV
      Energy resolution ~6.5 eV (FWHM) at 6 keV
      FOV 2.9´ X 2.9´

    • X-ray Imaging Spectrometer (XIS; 0.2-12 keV; four units)
      Each unit is a 1024 X 1024 pixel CCD detector at the foci of one XRT-I.
      Three CCDs are front illuminated (FI), one is back illuminated (BI)
      Eff. area 340 cm2 (FI) and 390 cm2 (BI) @ 1.5 keV
      Energy resolution 130 eV at 6 keV
      FOV 18´ X 18´

  • Hard X-ray Detector (HXD; 10-600 keV)
    GSO crystal scintillator (> 30 keV) & silicon PIN diodes (< 60 keV)
    Eff. area ~145 cm2 @ ~15 keV (PIN) , 315cm 2 at 2 @ ~100 keV (GSO)
    Energy resolution 3 keV FWHM, 7.6/(E MeV) 0.5 % FWHM
    FOV 34´ X 34´ < 100 keV and 4.5° X 4.5° > 100 keV
* Archive : HEASARC hosts the Catalogs, Lightcurve , Spectra and Raw data.
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HEASARC Staff Scientist Position - Applications are now being accepted for a Staff Scientist with significant experience and interest in the technical aspects of astrophysics research, to work in the High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center (HEASARC) at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) in Greenbelt, MD. Refer to the AAS Job register for full details.