Suzaku Calibration database

Introduction

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 the two instruments, 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.

To use the calibration database, you can use the latest HEASOFT software, see here for details of how to initialise that.

To set up you environment to use the Suzaku calibration database, you should do this:

For C Shell variants (csh, tcsh), for example:

setenv CALDB /usr/local/suzaku/CALDB
source ${CALDB}/software/tools/caldbinit.csh

export CALDB=/usr/local/suzaku/CALDB
source ${CALDB}/software/tools/caldbinit.csh

Testing

caldbinfo INST suzaku xis
caldbinfo INST suzaku hxd

rahm[pavo]rahm: caldbinfo INST suzaku xis
 ** caldbinfo 1.0.2
 ... Local CALDB appears to be set-up & accessible
 ** caldbinfo 1.0.2 completed successfully
rahm[pavo]rahm: caldbinfo INST suzaku hxd
 ** caldbinfo 1.0.2
 ... Local CALDB appears to be set-up & accessible
 ** caldbinfo 1.0.2 completed successfully

References

Suzaku Calibration database files