X-ray detectors and calibration system for the MAXI mission
Abstract
Monitor of All-Sky X-ray Image (MAXI) is the first astrophysical payload for the Japanese Experiment Module (JEM) on the International Space Station. It is designed for monitoring all sky in the x-ray band. Two kinds of x-ray detectors, the gas slit camera and the solid-state slit camera, are employed. The former is the gas proportional counter with 1D position sensitivity and the latter is the x-ray CCD. We have designed and constructed the engineering models of both detectors. We have also developed an x-ray irradiation facility in the Tsukuba Space Center of National Space Development Agency of Japan. We report the status of the mission and introduce the x-ray irradiation facility.
- Publication:
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EUV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Instrumentation for Astronomy X
- Pub Date:
- October 1999
- DOI:
- 10.1117/12.366544
- Bibcode:
- 1999SPIE.3765..636T