Solid-State Slit Camera (SSC) Aboard MAXI
Abstract
The Solid-state Slit Camera (SSC) is an X-ray camera aboard the MAXI mission of the International Space Station. Two sets of SSC sensors view the X-ray sky using charge-coupled devices (CCDs) in the 0.5-12 keV band. The total area for X-ray detection is about 200 cm², which is the largest among the missions of X-ray astronomy. The energy resolution at the CCD temperature of -70°C is 145 eV in full width at the half maximum (FWHM) at 5.9 keV, and the field of view is 1.°5 (FWHM) × 90° for each sensor. The SSC could make a whole-sky image with the energy resolution good enough to resolve line emissions, and monitor the whole-sky at the energy band of <2 keV for the first time in these decades.
- Publication:
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan
- Pub Date:
- April 2011
- DOI:
- 10.1093/pasj/63.2.397
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1101.3651
- Bibcode:
- 2011PASJ...63..397T
- Keywords:
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- instrumentation: detectors;
- methods: data analysis;
- space vehicles: instruments;
- X-rays: general;
- Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- 9 pages, 16 figures, accepted for PASJ (Vol. 63 No. 2)