Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
May 2003
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003head....7.4908m&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, HEAD meeting #7, #49.08; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 35, p.866
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
MAXI (Monitor of All-sky X-ray Image) is the X-ray all sky monitor which will be attached to the JEM-EF on ISS. MAXI will scan the whole sky once every 90 minutes with Gas Slit Camera (GSC) sensitive in the 2-30 keV band, and with Solid-state Slit Camera (SSC) covering the 0.5-10 keV band.
The detection sensitivity will be 7 mCrab in one scan and 1mCrab in one-week observation. MAXI can not only monitor the X-ray intensity variation of the Galactic object such as X-ray novae and transients, but also extragalactic objects such as bright AGN's. MAXI enables us to monitor long-term variabilities of several tens AGN simultaneously for the first time. MAXI can also observe the diffuse soft X-ray sky with better energy resolution of CCD than that of ROSAT survey in the mission life.
MAXI instrumentations are in progress for flight model. We will give a talk on the present status of MAXI. The ISS program, however, was delayed for a few years, and thus the MAXI launching time may be delayed to 2008.
JEM-EF: Japanese Experiment Module - Exposed Facility.
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