Suzaku is the fifth Japanese X-ray astronomy satellite. It was developed under Japan-US international collaboration and was launched on July 10, 2005, from JAXA Uchinoura Space Center. If this is your first visit to our site, please also look at ISAS/JAXA official Suzaku page and Suzaku Learning Center at NASA/GSFC. As for information before launch, please visit Astro-E2 page.

General Information

Suzaku Spies Treasure Trove of Intergalactic Medium (2009-12-04)

Recently astronomers used the Suzaku orbiting X-ray observatory, operated jointly by NASA and the Japanese space agency, to discover the largest known reservoir of rare metals in the universe. Suzaku detected the elements chromium and manganese while observing the central region of the Perseus galaxy cluster. The metallic atoms are part of the hot gas, or "intergalactic medium," that lies between galaxies. NASA press release

List of general information (Suzaku Flash)

Information for Researchers

	2009-10-28 AO-4 Long-term schedule update
	2009-08-28 Announcement of Suzaku AO-5
	2009-07-02 Anomaly in XIS0
	2009-03-05 List of accepted targets in AO-4
	2009-02-03 PASJ 3rd Suzaku Special Issue

Data processing and analysis

2009-12-07 The CALDB is updated.

2009-12-03 Suzaku software v14 (Heasoft v6.8)

2009-10-06 Processing version updated (2.4.12.27)

2009-06-04 XIS energy scale in window mode

List of information for researchers (What's New)

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Int'l Conf: "The Energetic Cosmos: from Suzaku to ASTRO-H" June 29-July 2, Otaru
Observation: AO-3 Accepted target list | Observation schedule | Observation Log
Suzaku Technical Description: HTML | PDF
Gamma-ray burst observations with HXD: Top | Introduction | GRB list| solar flare list
Questions on data analysis: Suzaku help desk

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