MG11 |
Participant |
Dotani, Tadayasu | |
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Institution |
Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, JAXA - 3-1-1 Yoshinodai - Sagamihara - Kanagawa - JAPAN | |
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Session |
Talk |
Abstract |
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APO1 |
Initial results from the Suzaku satellite |
I will review the initial results obtained with the Suzaku satellite. Suzaku (previously known as Astro-E2) is the 5th X-ray astronomy satellite of Japan developed under the Japan/US collaboration. It was successfully launched on July 10, 2005. Suzaku is equipped with 4 sets of X-ray telescopes with the CCD cameras at the focal plane and the non-imaging hard X-ray detector. Suzaku covers the soft X-ray to gamma-ray band, from 0.2 keV to 600 keV. Both the X-ray telescopes and the hard X-ray detector achieve very high sensitivity thanks to their low background. I will review the initial results obtained with Suzaku by picking up several topics related to the neutron stars and black holes. |