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arxiv: 0906.0631 · v1 · pith:VWEGD6VLnew · submitted 2009-06-03 · 🌌 astro-ph.IM · astro-ph.HE

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

Masaru Matsuoka (1) , Kazuyoshi Kawasaki (1) , Shiro Ueno (1) , Hiroshi Tomida (1) , Mitsuhiro Kohama (1 , 2) , Motoko Suzuki (1) , Yasuki Adachi (1)
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Masaki Ishikawa (1) Tatehiro Mihara (2) Mutsumi Sugizaki (2) Naoki Isobe (2) Yujin Nakagawa (2) Hiroshi Tsunemi (3) Emi Miyata (3) Nobuyuki Kawai (4) Jun Kataoka (4) Mikio Morii (4) Atsumasa Yoshida (5) Hitoshi Negoro (6) Motoki Nakajima (6) Yoshihiro Ueda (7) Hirotaka Chujo (2) Kazutaka Yamaoka (5) Osamu Yamazaki (5) Satoshi Nakahira (5) Tetsuya You (5) Ryoji Ishiwata (6) Sho Miyoshi (6) Satoshi Eguchi (7) Kazuo Hiroi (7) Haruyoshi Katayama (8) Ken Ebisawa (9) ((1) ISS Science Project Office ISAS JAXA (2) Cosmic Radiation Laboratory RIKEN (3) Department of Earth Space Science Osaka University (4) Department of Physics Tokyo Institute of Technology (5) Department of Physics Mathematics Aoyama Gakuin University (6) Department of Physics Nihon University (7) Department of Astronomy Kyoto University (8) Earth Observation Research Center (9) ISAS JAXA)
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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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