"The X-ray observatory Suzaku", by Kazuhisa Mitsuda, et al., Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, 59(SP1): S1-7, 25 January 2007.

[Authors' affiliations: 42 institutions worldwide]

Abstract: "High-sensitivity wide-band X-ray spectroscopy is the key feature of the Suzaku X-ray observatory, launched on 2005 July 10. This paper summarizes the spacecraft, in-orbit performance, operations, and data processing that are related to observations. The scientific instruments, the high-throughput X-ray telescopes, X-ray CCD cameras, non-imaging hard X-ray detector are also described."

This 2007 report from Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan was cited 35 times in current journal articles indexed by Thomson Reuters during May-June 2008. Only one other physics paper published in the last two years, aside from reviews, garnered a higher number of citations during that two-month period. Prior to the most recent bimonthly count, citations to the paper have accrued as follows:

March-April 2008: 35 citations
January-February 2008: 18
September-October 2007: 2
May-June 2007: 2
March-April 2007: 26

Total citations to date: 118

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