The Suzaku X-ray Universe
This meeting was dedicated to the memory of Richard Fink
This conference will present and discuss results from the 5th Japanese satellite Suzaku (Astro-EII) which was launched on July 10, 2005.
Suzaku 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 the two instruments, X-ray CCDs (X-ray Imaging Spectrometer; XIS), and the hard X-ray detector (HXD).
The mission brings new capabilities to observe all classes of Astronomical objects including Active Galactic Nuclei, Clusters of Galaxies, Stars, Supernova remnants, X-ray binaries, and solar system objects. After a nine month performance verification phase, Suzaku became an observatory open to use by the world-wide astronomical community in April 2006.
This conference will be the first to present the results of both the performance verification phase and guest observer program. The material presented at this conference will be used as an important input to the Suzaku proposal that will be submitted to the NASA senior review planned for the Spring of 2008, which will set the NASA Suzaku budget for October 2008 thru September 2012.
