MAXI mission for the space station
Abstract
MAXI (Monitor of All-sky X-ray Image) is the first astrophysical payload for Japanese Experiment Module (JEM) to be designed for all sky X-ray monitoring. MAXI is a slit scanning camera which consists of two kinds of X-ray detectors; one is one-dimensional position sensitive proportional counters with total area of ~5000 cm2 (here we call GSC) and the other is an X-ray CCD array with total area ~200 cm2 (here we call SSC). The GSC subtends a field of view with an angular dimension of 1 degree times 180 degrees, while the SSC does a field of view with an angular dimension of 1 degree times a little less than 180 degrees. Thus, in the course of one station orbit, MAXI can scan almost all sky with a precision of 1 degree and with X-ray energy range of 0.5-30 keV. MAXI with a total weight of about 500 kg will be attached to JEM exposed facility in 2003.
- Publication:
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Space Technology and Applications, International Forum -- 1999
- Pub Date:
- January 1999
- DOI:
- 10.1063/1.57566
- Bibcode:
- 1999AIPC..458..163M
- Keywords:
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- 95.55.Ka;
- 07.87.+v;
- X- and gamma-ray telescopes and instrumentation;
- Spaceborne and space research instruments apparatus and components