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

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...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2009-06
Main Authors: Matsuoka, Masaru, Kawasaki, Kazuyoshi, Ueno, Shiro, Tomida, Hiroshi, Kohama, Mitsuhiro, Suzuki, Motoko, Adachi, Yasuki, Ishikawa, Masaki, Mihara, Tatehiro, Sugizaki, Mutsumi, Isobe, Naoki, Nakagawa, Yujin, Tsunemi, Hiroshi, Miyata, Emi, Kawai, Nobuyuki, Kataoka, Jun, Morii, Mikio, Yoshida, Atsumasa, Negoro, Hitoshi, Nakajima, Motoki, Ueda, Yoshihiro, Chujo, Hirotaka, Yamaoka, Kazutaka, Yamazaki, Osamu, Nakahira, Satoshi, You, Tetsuya, Ishiwata, Ryoji, Miyoshi, Sho, Eguchi, Satoshi, Hiroi, Kazuo, Katayama, Haruyoshi, Ebisawa, Ken
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Astronomical instruments
Japanese Experiment Module
Payloads
X ray sources
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Summary: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.
ISSN:2331-8422
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.0906.0631