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Feb 2010
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010head...11.2204n&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, HEAD meeting #11, #22.04; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 41, p.693
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The MAXI nova alerts system and scientific results obtained with the system are presented. MAXI scans more than 95 % of the sky every 92 min, and 70-80 % of the data are instantaneously downloaded from the ISS to the TsuKuba Space Center, TKSC (Matsuoka et al. 2009, PASJ, 61, 999).
Our MAXI nova alerts system at TKSC consists of nova-search systems to find transient objects and an alerts system to compile the information from the nova-search systems and send alerts to the world. Using the ISS network, it is possible to send alert information in about 10 sec from the detection (in the fastest case).
MAXI and Swift must complementarily work as soft and hard X-ray all-sky monitors (MAXI/SSC: 0.5-12 keV, MAXI/GSC: 2-30 keV, and Swift/BAT: 15-150 keV), and wide and deep, soft X-ray monitors (MAXI/GSC and Swift/XRT). Fermi also plays an important rule at higher energies. Thus, the connection between these systems must be very important to discover various types of objects as fast as possible.
Our system has already detected various types of objects such as gamma-ray bursts, X-ray bursts, Be-pulsars, a black-hole candidate, and other types of transient events. An automatic procedure from finding a transient object to a notification e-mail transmission is soon starting.
MAXI Team
Negoro Hitoshi
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