The MAXI Mission on the ISS: Science and Instruments for Monitoring All-Sky X-Ray Images
By M. Matsuoka, K. Kawasaki, S. Ueno, H. Tomida, M. Kohama, Motoko Suzuki, Y. Adachi, M. Ishikawa, T. Mihara, M. Sugizaki and 37 more. 2009
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The Monitor of All-sky X-ray Image (MAXI) mission is the first astronomical payload to be installed on the Japanese Experiment Module — Exposed Facility (JEM-EF or Kibo-EF) on the International Space Station. It has two types of X-ray slit cameras with wide FOVs and two kinds of X-ray detectors consisting of gas proportional counters covering the energy range of 2 to 30 keV and X-ray CCDs covering the energy range of 0.5 to 12 keV. MAXI will be more powerful than any previous X-ray All Sky Monitor payloads, being able to monitor hundreds of Active Galactic Nuclei. A realistic simulation under optimal observation conditions suggests that MAXI will provide all-sky images of X-ray sources of � 20 mCrab (� 7 � 10 � 10 erg cm � 2 s � 1 in the energy band of 2–30 keV) from observations during one ISS orbit (90 min), � 4.5 mCrab for one day, and � 2 mCrab for one week. The final detectability of MAXI could be � 0.2 mCrab for two years, which is comparable to the source confusion limit of the MAXI field of view (FOV). The MAXI objectives are: (1) to alert the community to X-ray novae and transient X-ray sources, (2) to monitor long-term variabilities of X-ray sources, (3) to stimulate multi-wavelength observations of variable objects, (4) to create unbiased X-ray source cataloges, and (5) to observe diffuse cosmic X-ray emissions, especially with better energy resolution for soft X-rays down to 0.5 keV.
Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics
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- TOWARD THE STANDARD POPULATION SYNTHESIS MODEL OF THE X-RAY BACKGROUND: EVOLUTION OF X-RAY LUMINOSITY AND ABSORPTION FUNCTIONS OF ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI INCLUDING COMPTON-THICK POPULATIONS (2014, background): “…XLF over the redshift range from 0 to 5, by utilizing one of the largest combined sample ever available, obtained from surveys of various depth, width, and energy bands performed with Swift/BAT, the Monitor of All-sky X-ray Image (MAXI, Matsuoka et al. 2009),ASCA, XMM-Newton, Chandra, and ROSAT.”
- Multi-messenger observations of a binary neutron star merger (2017, methodology): “The earliest limits at X-ray wavelengths were provided by the Gas Slit Camera (GSC) of the Monitor of All-Sky X-ray Image (MAXI; Matsuoka et al. 2009).”
- WATCHDOG: A COMPREHENSIVE ALL-SKY DATABASE OF GALACTIC BLACK HOLE X-RAY BINARIES (2015, background): “A-2-Cosmic X-ray Experim nt (CXE) involving six separate proportional counters aboard the High Energy Astronomy Observatory (HEAO) 1, A-3 - Modulation Colliamtor (MC) aboard HEAO 1, A-4 - Hard X-Ray/Low Energy Gamma Ray Experiment aboard HEAO 1, ANS - medium energy detector abard the Astronomical Ne”
- Multimessenger observations of a flaring blazar coincident with high-energy neutrino IceCube-170922A (2018, background): “3 to 10 keV) (48),MAXI Gas Slit Camera (GSC) (2 to 10 keV) (49), Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) (3 to 79 keV) (50), and the INTernational Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (INTEGRAL) (20 to 250 keV) (51), with detections by Swift and NuSTAR .”
- BlackCAT: A catalogue of stellar-mass black holes in X-ray transients (2015, methodology): “This research made use of the MAXI data provided by RIKEN, JAXA and the MAXI team (Matsuoka et al. 2009).”