Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
Institute of Physical and Chemical Research
Institute of Physical and Chemical Research
出版者
宇宙航空研究開発機構宇宙科学研究本部
出版者(英)
Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA/ISAS)
雑誌名
宇宙利用シンポジウム 第20回 平成15年度
雑誌名(英)
Space Utilization Research: Proceedings of the Twentieth Space Utilization Symposium
ページ
336 - 339
発行年
2004-03
抄録(英)
MAXI is an X-ray all sky monitor onboard JEM exposed facility of ISS. It will be launched on 2008 in HTV by H-2A rocket. MAXI has two narrow field-of-views 1.5 x 160 degrees, which scan the whole sky every 90 minutes with the ISS rotation. MAXI has two instruments: gas slit camera (GSC) and solid-state slit camera (SSC). The energy range is 2 to 30 keV (GSC) and 0.5 to 10 keV (SSC). The GSC has a large area and the detection limit with one scan is 7 mCrab (5 sigma), 3 mCrab in one day, and 1 mCrab in one week. MAXI can produce a dynamic catalog of X-ray sky with this depth every week. It can detect AGNs for the first time as an all-sky monitor, as well as galactic objects. Alerts of X-ray flares and X-ray and gamma-ray bursts are transmitted to the ground by 1553B and Ethernet, and to the observatories all over the world through the internet automatically.