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most citedThe MAXI Mission on the ISS: Science and Instruments for Monitoring All Sky X-Ray Images

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73 papers

astro-ph.HE2025★ 1 cited

Precision spectral measurements of Chromium and Titanium from 10 to 250 GeV and sub-Iron to Iron ratio with the Calorimetric Electron Telescope on the ISS

O. Adriani, Y. Akaike, K. Asano +77

The Calorimetric Electron Telescope (CALET), in operation on the International Space Station since 2015, collected a large sample of cosmic-ray (CR) iron and sub-iron events over a…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 20 cited

Direct Measurement of the Spectral Structure of Cosmic-Ray Electrons+Positrons in the TeV Region with CALET on the International Space Station

O. Adriani, Y. Akaike, K. Asano +77

Detailed measurements of the spectral structure of cosmic-ray electrons and positrons from 10.6 GeV to 7.5 TeV are presented from over 7 years of observations with the CALorimetric…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 8 cited

Charge-Sign Dependent Cosmic-Ray Modulation Observed with the Calorimetric Electron Telescope on the International Space Station

O. Adriani, Y. Akaike, K. Asano +77

We present the observation of a charge-sign dependent solar modulation of galactic cosmic rays (GCRs) with the CALorimetric Electron Telescope onboard the International Space Stati…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 48 cited

Direct Measurement of the Cosmic-Ray Helium Spectrum from 40 GeV to 250 TeV with the Calorimetric Electron Telescope on the International Space Station

O. Adriani, Y. Akaike, K. Asano +77

We present the results of a direct measurement of the cosmic-ray helium spectrum with the CALET instrument in operation on the International Space Station since 2015. The observati…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 44 cited

Cosmic-ray Boron Flux Measured from 8.4 GeV to 3.8 TeV with the Calorimetric Electron Telescope on the International Space Station

O. Adriani, Y. Akaike, K. Asano +77

We present the measurement of the energy dependence of the boron flux in cosmic rays and its ratio to the carbon flux \textcolor{black}{in an energy interval from 8.4 GeV to 3.…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 84 cited

Observation of Spectral Structures in the Flux of Cosmic-Ray Protons from 50 GeV to 60 TeV with the Calorimetric Electron Telescope on the International Space Station

O. Adriani, Y. Akaike, K. Asano +77

A precise measurement of the cosmic-ray proton spectrum with the Calorimetric Electron Telescope (CALET) is presented in the energy interval from 50 GeV to 60 TeV, and the observat…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 9 cited

CALET Search for electromagnetic counterparts of gravitational waves during the LIGO/Virgo O3 run

O. Adriani, Y. Akaike, K. Asano +78

The CALorimetric Electron Telescope (CALET) on the International Space Station (ISS) consists of a high-energy cosmic ray CALorimeter (CAL) and a lower-energy CALET Gamma ray Burst…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 18 cited

Direct Measurement of the Nickel Spectrum in Cosmic Rays in the Energy Range from 8.8 GeV/n to 240 GeV/n with CALET on the International Space Station

O. Adriani, Y. Akaike, K. Asano +78

The relative abundance of cosmic ray nickel nuclei with respect to iron is by far larger than for all other trans-iron elements, therefore it provides a favorable opportunity for a…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 9 cited

Discovery and Long-term Broadband X-ray monitoring of Galactic Black Hole Candidate MAXI J1803-298

Megumi Shidatsu, Kohei Kobayashi, Hitoshi Negoro +11

We report the results from the broad-band X-ray monitoring of the new Galactic black hole candidate MAXI J1803298 with the MAXI/GSC and Swift/BAT during its outburst. After the…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 52 cited

Measurement of the Iron Spectrum in Cosmic Rays from 10 GeV to 2.0 TeV with the Calorimetric Electron Telescope on the International Space Station

O. Adriani, Y. Akaike, K. Asano +77

The Calorimetric Electron Telescope (CALET), in operation on the International Space Station since 2015, collected a large sample of cosmic-ray iron over a wide energy interval. In…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 29 cited

The RS CVn type star GT Mus shows most energetic X-ray flares throughout the 2010s

Ryo Sasaki, Yohko Tsuboi, Wataru Iwakiri +14

We report that the RS CVn-type star GT Mus (HR 4492, HD 101379 + HD 101380) was the most active star in the X-ray sky in the last decade in terms of the scale of recurrent energeti…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 1 cited

The Peculiar X-ray Transient Swift J0840.7-3516: an Unusual Low Mass X-ray Binary or a Tidal Disruption Event?

Megumi Shidatsu, Wataru Iwakiri, Hitoshi Negoro +9

We report on the X-ray properties of the new transient Swift J0840.73516, discovered with Swift/BAT in 2020 February, using extensive data of Swift, MAXI, NICER, and NuSTAR. The…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 65 cited

Direct Measurement of the Cosmic-Ray Carbon and Oxygen Spectra from 10 GeV to 2.2 TeV with the Calorimetric Electron Telescope on the International Space Station

O. Adriani, Y. Akaike, K. Asano +81

In this paper, we present the measurement of the energy spectra of carbon and oxygen in cosmic rays based on observations with the Calorimetric Electron Telescope (CALET) on the In…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 48 cited

Discovery of the black hole X-ray binary transient MAXIJ1348-630

Mayu Tominaga, Satoshi Nakahira, Megumi Shidatsu +8

We report the first half-year monitoring of the new Galactic black hole candidate MAXI J1348-630, discovered on 2019 January 26 with the Gas Slit Camera (GSC) on-board MAXI. During…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 8 cited

MAXI/SSC All-sky maps from 0.7 keV to 4 keV

Satoshi Nakahira, Hiroshi Tsunemi, Hiroshi Tomida +3

By accumulating data from the Solid-state Slit Camera (SSC) on board the MAXI mission for 2 years from 2009 to 2011, diffuse X-ray background maps were obtained in energies of 0.7-…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 9 cited

X-ray and Optical Observations of the Black Hole Candidate MAXI J1828-249

Sonoe Oda, Megumi Shidatsu, Satoshi Nakahira +8

We report results from X-ray and optical observations of the Galactic black hole candidate MAXI J1828-249, performed with Suzaku and the Kanata telescope around the X-ray flux peak…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 180 cited

Direct Measurement of the Cosmic-Ray Proton Spectrum from 50 GeV to 10 TeV with the Calorimetric Electron Telescope on the International Space Station

O. Adriani, Y. Akaike, K. Asano +86

In this paper, we present the analysis and results of a direct measurement of the cosmic-ray proton spectrum with the CALET instrument onboard the International Space Station, incl…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 13 cited

The CALorimetric Electron Telescope (CALET) on the International Space Station: Results from the First Two Years On Orbit

Y. Asaoka, O. Adriani, Y. Akaike +90

The CALorimetric Electron Telescope (CALET) is a high-energy astroparticle physics space experiment installed on the International Space Station (ISS), developed and operated by Ja…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 75 cited

X-ray and Optical Monitoring of State Transitions in MAXI J1820+070

Megumi Shidatsu, Satoshi Nakahira, Katsuhiro L. Murata +4

We report results from the X-ray and optical monitoring of the black hole candidate MAXI J1820+070 (=ASSASN-18ey) over the entire period of its outburst from March to October 2018.…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 36 cited

X-ray, Optical, and Near-infrared Monitoring of the New X-ray Transient MAXI J1820+070 in the Low/hard State

Megumi Shidatsu, Satoshi Nakahira, Satoshi Yamada +26

We report X-ray, optical, and near-infrared monitoring of the new X-ray transient MAXI J1820070 discovered with MAXI on 2018 March 11. Its X-ray intensity reached Crab…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 19 cited

Search for GeV Gamma-ray Counterparts of Gravitational Wave Events by CALET

O. Adriani, Y. Akaike, K. Asano +88

We present results on searches for gamma-ray counterparts of the LIGO/Virgo gravitational-wave events using CALorimetric Electron Telescope ({\sl CALET}) observations. The main ins…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 25 cited

The 7-year MAXI/GSC X-ray Source Catalog in the High Galactic-Latitude Sky (3MAXI)

Taiki Kawamuro, Yoshihiro Ueda, Megumi Shidatsu +28

We present the third MAXI/GSC catalog in the high Galactic-latitude sky () based on the 7-year data from 2009 August 13 to 2016 July 31, complementary to that in th…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 179 cited

Extended Measurement of the Cosmic-Ray Electron and Positron Spectrum from 11 GeV to 4.8 TeV with the Calorimetric Electron Telescope on the International Space Station

O. Adriani, Y. Akaike, K. Asano +88

Extended results on the cosmic-ray electron + positron spectrum from 11 GeV to 4.8 TeV are presented based on observations with the Calorimetric Electron Telescope (CALET) on the I…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 15 cited

MAXI upper limits of the electromagnetic counterpart of GW170817

Satoshi Sugita, Nobuyuki Kawai, Satoshi Nakahira +5

We report the MAXI observation of the gravitational-wave (GW) event GW170817 and the electromagnetic counterpart of GW170817. GW170817 is a binary neutron star coalescence candidat…