Physics
Scientific paper
Dec 2010
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010fym..confp..63s&link_type=abstract
"The First Year of MAXI: Monitoring Variable X-ray Sources", Poster Presentations, 4th International MAXI Workshop held November
Physics
Scientific paper
One of main objectives of MAXI, Monitor of All-sky X-ray Image, is to discover X-ray transient objects. By scanning all the sky, MAXI can observe short- and long-term X-ray variabilities. Therefore, MAXI is the best X-ray instrument for the discovery of X-ray transient objects. Observational data are sent to the nova-search system that is a real-time X-ray transient monitor at the Tsukuba Space Center. The system also analyzes time series data at each spherical area. If the system detects large intensity variations above a threshold, the data of the area are sent to the alert system, where adjoining data are put together as one event. If it is admitted that the event is a transient object, the system reports the information soon to MAXI-team members. 39 transient objects or phenomena were reported to ATel and 12 GRBs including soft X-ray flashes were reported to GCN using this system by September in 2010. We present the outline of the system and improvements newly added to the system, for example a check of shading by a solar paddle.
MAXI Team
Negoro Hitoshi
Ozawa Hiroshi
Suwa Fumitoshi
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