Tracking Contamination on the Suzaku X-Ray Imaging Spectrometer

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May 2007

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American Astronomical Society Meeting 210, #86.10; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 39, p.196

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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The X-ray Imaging Spectrometer (XIS) aboard Suzaku has been operating successfully since August 2005. During that time, the low-energy sensitivity has significantly worsened, likely due to an unknown contaminant building up on the optical blocking filters of each sensor. The exact composition and surface density of the contamimant has a great impact on a unique strength of this instrument, namely its combination of high efficiency and excellent spectral resolution at energies below 1 keV. We review efforts to track the temporal and spatial variations of the contamination and to characterize its composition.

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