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The Extreme Universe in the Suzaku EraEdited by Kiyoshi Hayashida, Takeshi Go Tsuru, Katsuji Koyama This volume contains the proceedings of the international conference ``The Extreme Universe in the Suzaku Era" (Suzaku2006), held December 4-8, 2006, at Kyoto TERRSA, Kyoto. The fifth Japanese X-ray astronomy satellite Suzaku (Astro-EII), in collaboration with NASA, was successfully launched on July 10th, 2005. The excellent performance of the Suzaku instruments has allowed us to make great progress in our outstanding of the ``extreme universe" proved with thermal and non-thermal X-rays. Suzaku2006 was primarily motivated by the exciting results obtained with Suzaku during the first year since its launch. The year 2006 is one millennium after SN1006, a symbolic object in which thermal and non-thermal X-rays jointly play key roles in the ``extreme universe". We had a special session on this object to celebrate this millennium. Obviously, the papers in this volume are not limited to SN1006, but cover a variety of objects, from comets to the most distant galaxies. Recent results from currently active high energy satellites other than Suzaku are also included to maximize the synergy among these missions. The theoretical papers are useful for interpreting the observational results and for helping to plan new observational strategies after the conference. Suzaku2006 had 386 participants from all over the world, 88 invited and contributed talks, and a total of 233 poster presentations. This volume includes the papers prepared for the oral presentations. The poster presentations are collected in a CD-ROM available at the conference web site. |
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