SUZAKU 2011: Exploring the X-ray Universe - Suzaku and Beyond

These are the proceedings of the conference Suzaku 2011:Exploring the X-ray Universe; Suzaku and Behind held in Palo Alto, California, USA, July 20-22, 2011 at SLAC institute.
Suzaku is Japan's fifth X-ray astronomy mission, and was developed at the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (ISAS/JAXA) in
collaboration with U.S. (NASA/GSFC, MIT) and Japanese institutions. Suzaku covers the energy range 0.2 - 600 keV with two instruments : the X-ray CCDs (X-ray Imaging
Spectrometer; XIS), and the hard X-ray detector (HXD). Suzaku also carries a third instrument, an X-ray micro-calorimeter (X-ray Spectrometer; XRS), but the XRS lost all its cryogen before routine scientific observations could begin. Suzaku 2011 is the fourth of a series of conferences aimed to bring together the latest results from observations carried out with the Suzaku satellite and/or observations campaign obtained with different satellites that complement the Suzaku results.

Product details

• Authors: Rob Petre
• Assisted by: Lorella Angelini (Editor), Kazuhis Mitsuda (Editor), Kazuhisa Mitsuda (Editor), Rob Petre (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.04.2012
• EAN: 9780735410107
• ISBN: 978-0-7354-1010-7
• No. of pages: 370
• Series: AIP Conference Proceedings / Astronomy and Astrophysics; AIP Conference Proceedings / A; AIP Conference Proceedings / A
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Astronomy