TY - GEN
T1 - The MAXI mission operation plan
AU - Ueno, Shiro
AU - Matsuoka, Masaru
AU - Kawasaki, Kazuyoshi
AU - Tomida, Hiroshi
AU - Adachi, Yasuki
AU - Kohama, Mitsuhiro
AU - Suzuki, Motoko
AU - Ishikawa, Masaki
AU - Katayama, Haruyoshi
AU - Mihara, Tatehiro
AU - Sugizaki, Mutsumi
AU - Isobe, Naoki
AU - Tsunemi, Hiroshi
AU - Miyata, Emi
AU - Kawai, Nobuyuki
AU - Kataoka, Jun
AU - Yoshida, Atsumasa
AU - Yamaoka, Kazutaka
AU - Negoro, Hitoshi
AU - Nakajima, Motoki
AU - Morii, Mikio
AU - Ueda, Yoshihiro
AU - Eguchi, Satoshi
PY - 2008/12/1
Y1 - 2008/12/1
N2 - Monitor of All-sky X-ray Image (MAXI) is an X-ray all-sky monitor, which will be delivered to the International Space Station (ISS) by a space shuttle crew in early 2009, to scan almost the entire sky once every 96 minutes for a mission life of two to five years. The detection sensitivity will be 5 mCrab (5σ level) for a one-day MAXI operation, 2 mCrab for one week, and 1 mCrab for one month, reaching a source confusion limit of 0.2 mCrab in two years. In this paper, brief descriptions are presented for the MAXI mission and payload, and three operation phases, 1) the launch-to-docking phase, 2) the initial in-orbit calibration phase, and 3) the routine operation phase. We also describes the MAXI data product and its release plan for public users.
AB - Monitor of All-sky X-ray Image (MAXI) is an X-ray all-sky monitor, which will be delivered to the International Space Station (ISS) by a space shuttle crew in early 2009, to scan almost the entire sky once every 96 minutes for a mission life of two to five years. The detection sensitivity will be 5 mCrab (5σ level) for a one-day MAXI operation, 2 mCrab for one week, and 1 mCrab for one month, reaching a source confusion limit of 0.2 mCrab in two years. In this paper, brief descriptions are presented for the MAXI mission and payload, and three operation phases, 1) the launch-to-docking phase, 2) the initial in-orbit calibration phase, and 3) the routine operation phase. We also describes the MAXI data product and its release plan for public users.
KW - All-sky x-ray monitor
KW - ISS
KW - Jem
KW - Kibo
KW - MAXI
KW - X-ray astronomy
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U2 - 10.1117/12.788582
DO - 10.1117/12.788582
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:70249111566
SN - 9780819472212
T3 - Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
BT - Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2008
T2 - Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2008: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray
Y2 - 23 June 2008 through 28 June 2008
ER -