著者
Maeda Yoshitomo Ebara Masatoshi Fujimoto Ryuichi HAYASHI Takayuki INOUE Hirohiko ISHISAKI Yoshitaka MORI Hideyuki OKADA Shunsaku SUZUKI Kensuke UCHIYAMA Yasunobu SERLEMITSOS Peter J. SOONG Yang CHAN Kai-Wing OKAJIMA Takashi LEHAN John P. ITOH Kei ITOH Akiharu YOKOYAMA Yushi ITOH Yumi NAKAMURA Ryoko ISHIDA Manabu HAYAKAWA Akira INOUE Chiaki OKUMA Satoshi KUBOTA Ren SUZUKI Masaki OSAWA Takeyuki YAMASHITA Koujun KUNIEDA Hideyo TAWARA Yuzuru OGASAKA Yasushi FURUZAWA Akihiro TAMURA Keisuke SHIBATA Ryo HABA Yoshito NAITOU Masataka MISAKI Kazutami IIZUKA Ryo
出版者
一般社団法人日本物理学会
雑誌
Progress of theoretical physics. Supplement (ISSN:03759687)
巻号頁・発行日
no.169, pp.322-325, 2007-12-19

We present the in-flight performance of the X-ray telescopes (XRTs) onboard Suzaku. The imaging capability is significantly improved over the ASCA XRT, which had half-power diameters of 3'.6, to 1'.8-2'.3 for all four XRT-I modules. Contemporaneous fits of a power law to all the XIS spectra of the Crab Nebula taken at the two standard observing positions (XIS/HXD-default positions) gives a flux consistent with that obtained by Toor & Seward (1974) to within〜2%. The pre-collimator on the top of each XRT module successfully reduces the intensity of the stray light from the 20' and 50'-off directions down to the level of pre-flight expectations. We also present the thermal wobbling of the satellite. The wobbling causes the alignment error between the XRT-XIS system and the attitude and orbit control system. The wobbling of the alignment is as large as〜1arcmin. In the currently processed data, the absolute coordinate also has systematic uncertainty of up to〜1arcmin.