The MAXI Mission on the ISS: Science and Instruments for Monitoring All Sky X-Ray Images

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2009-06-03

arxiv.org/abs/0906.0631v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics

12 pages, 11 figures, accepted for publication in Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan

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The MAXI (Monitor of All-sky X-ray Image) mission is the first astronomical payload to be installed on the Japanese Experiment Module-Exposed Facility (JEM-EF) on the ISS. It is scheduled for launch in the middle of 2009 to monitor all-sky X-ray objects on every ISS orbit. MAXI will be more powerful than any previous X-ray All Sky Monitor (ASM) payloads, being able to monitor hundreds of AGN. MAXI will provide all sky images of X-ray sources of about 20 mCrab in the energy band of 2-30 keV from observation on one ISS orbit (90 min), about 4.5 mCrab for one day, and about 1 mCrab for one month. A final detectability of MAXI could be 0.2 mCrab for 2 year observations.

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