MAXI observations of long-term X-ray activities in SFXTs

Supergiant Fast X-ray Transients (SFXTs) are of great interest not only because of their peculiar properties but also as possible progenitors of gravitational-wave objects. The all-sky X-ray monitor MAXI/GSC has detected short flares on timescales of hours and long flares on timescales of days from SFXTs. Using nine-years of MAXI/GSC data, I attempted to search periodicity of eight SFXTs of which the one-day average fluxes were below the detection limit (∼ 10 mCrab), and confirmed the orbital periods of IGR J18483-0311 and IGR J17544-2619. This demonstrates that MAXI data are useful to find periodicities of sources even if the sources are undetectable in one day.