Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Feb 2010
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010head...11.1302s&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, HEAD meeting #11, #13.02; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 41, p.674
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
MAXI (Monitor of All-sky X-ray Image) mission operation on the International Space Station started in August, 2009. Since then, the GSC (Gas Slit Camera) on MAXI has been scanning the whole sky every 90 minutes of the ISS orbital period in 2-30 keV band. Intensity variations of transient X-ray sources over a time scale of the 90-minute orbital period, which includes an outburst from a Be/X-ray binary A0535+26 and a flare from an active star UX Ari, have been monitored successfully so far. It also has a capability to detect a short time variation during a source transit of 40-60 seconds for each scan. These light curves of pre-registered known X-ray sources are archived on the MAXI web site (http://maxi.riken.jp). The sensitivity per a 90-minute scan cycle is approximately 20 mCrab. We present preliminary results of monitoring X-ray transients obtained from the operation of the first six months.
MAXI Collaboration
Sugizaki Mutsumi
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