Wide-field MAXI: Soft x-ray transient monitor on the ISS

Nobuyuki Kawai; Hiroshi Tomida; Yoichi Yatsu; Tatehiro Mihara; Shiro Ueno; Masashi Kimura; Makoto Arimoto; Motoko Serino; Takanori Sakamoto; Hiroshi Tsunemi; Takayoshi Kohmura; Hitoshi Negoro; Yoshihiro Ueda; Mikio Morii; Yoko Tsuboi; Ken Ebisawa; Atsumasa Yoshida

doi:10.1117/12.2057188

Wide-field MAXI: Soft x-ray transient monitor on the ISS

Nobuyuki Kawai^*, Hiroshi Tomida, Yoichi Yatsu, Tatehiro Mihara, Shiro Ueno, Masashi Kimura, Makoto Arimoto, Motoko Serino, Takanori Sakamoto, Hiroshi Tsunemi, Takayoshi Kohmura, Hitoshi Negoro, Yoshihiro Ueda, Mikio Morii, Yoko Tsuboi, Ken Ebisawa, Atsumasa Yoshida

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Abstract

WF-MAXI is a soft X-ray transient monitor proposed for the ISS/JEM. Unlike MAXI, it will always cover a large field of view (20 % of the entire sky) to detect short transients more efficiently. In addition to the various transient sources seen by MAXI, we hope to localize X-ray counterparts of gravitational wave events, expected to be directly detected by Advanced-LIGO, Virgo and KAGRA in late 2010's. The main instrument, the Soft X-ray Large Solid Angle Cameras (SLC) is sensitive in the 0.7-12 keV band with a localization accuracy of ∼ 0:1°. The Hard X-ray Monitor (HXM) covers the same sky field in the 20 keV-1 MeV band.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2014: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray
Publisher	SPIE
Volume	9144
ISBN (Electronic)	9780819496126
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2057188
Publication status	Published - 2014
Externally published	Yes
Event	Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2014: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray - Montreal Duration: 2014 Jun 22 → 2014 Jun 26

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Other	Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2014: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray
City	Montreal
Period	14/6/22 → 14/6/26

Keywords

all-sky monitor
gamma-ray bursts
gravitational waves
International Space Station
WF-MAXI
X-ray astronomy
X-ray detectors
X-ray transients

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Applied Mathematics
Computer Science Applications
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Condensed Matter Physics

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Kawai, N., Tomida, H., Yatsu, Y., Mihara, T., Ueno, S., Kimura, M., Arimoto, M., Serino, M., Sakamoto, T., Tsunemi, H., Kohmura, T., Negoro, H., Ueda, Y., Morii, M., Tsuboi, Y., Ebisawa, K., & Yoshida, A. (2014). Wide-field MAXI: Soft x-ray transient monitor on the ISS. In Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2014: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray (Vol. 9144). [91442P] SPIE. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2057188

Kawai, N, Tomida, H, Yatsu, Y, Mihara, T, Ueno, S, Kimura, M, Arimoto, M, Serino, M, Sakamoto, T, Tsunemi, H, Kohmura, T, Negoro, H, Ueda, Y, Morii, M, Tsuboi, Y, Ebisawa, K & Yoshida, A 2014, Wide-field MAXI: Soft x-ray transient monitor on the ISS. in Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2014: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray. vol. 9144, 91442P, SPIE, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2014: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, Montreal, 14/6/22. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2057188

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