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

845 citations · 1.2k across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

astro-ph.HE2016★ 55 cited

Large X-ray Flares on Stars Detected with MAXI/GSC: A Universal Correlation between the Duration of a Flare and its X-ray Luminosity

Yohko Tsuboi, Kyohei Yamazaki, Yasuharu Sugawara +39

23 giant flares from 13 active stars (eight RS CVn systems, one Algol system, three dMe stars and one YSO) were detected during the first two years of our all-sky X-ray monitoring…

astro-ph.HE2011★ 12 cited

A Large X-ray Flare from a Single Weak-lined T Tauri Star TWA-7 Detected with MAXI GSC

Akiko Uzawa, Yohko Tsuboi, Mikio Morii +35

We present a large X-ray flare from a nearby weak-lined T Tauri star TWA-7 detected with the Gas Slit Camera (GSC) on the Monitor of All-sky X-ray Image (MAXI). The GSC captured X-…

astro-ph.IM2011★ 196 cited

Gas Slit Camera (GSC) onboard MAXI on ISS

Tatehiro Mihara, Motoki Nakajima, Mutsumi Sugizaki +16

The Gas Slit Camera (GSC) is an X-ray instrument on the MAXI (Monitor of All-sky X-ray Image) mission on the International Space Station. It is designed to scan the entire sky ever…

astro-ph.IM2011★ 72 cited

Solid-state Slit Camera (SSC) on Board MAXI

Hiroshi Tomida, Hiroshi Tsunemi, Masashi Kimura +9

Solid-state Slit Camera (SSC) is an X-ray camera onboard the MAXI mission of the International Space Station. Two sets of SSC sensors view X-ray sky using charge-coupled devices (C…

astro-ph.HE2010★ 41 cited

Bright X-ray flares from the BL Lac object Mrk 421, detected with MAXI in 2010 January and February

Naoki Isobe, Kousuke Sugimori, Nobuyuki Kawai +28

Strong X-ray flares from the blazar Mrk 421 were detected in 2010 January and February through the 7 month monitoring with the MAXI GSC. The maximum 2 -- 10 keV flux in the January…

astro-ph.HE2010★ 28 cited

MAXI GSC observations of a spectral state transition in the black hole candidate XTE J1752-223

Satoshi Nakahira, Kazutaka Yamaoka, Mutsumi Sugizaki +29

We present the first results on the black hole candidate XTE J1752-223 from the Gas Slit Camera (GSC) on-board the Monitor of All-sky X-ray Image (MAXI) on the International Space…

astro-ph.IM2009★ 845 cited

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

Masaru Matsuoka, Kazuyoshi Kawasaki, Shiro Ueno +29

The MAXI (Monitor of All-sky X-ray Image) mission is the first astronomical payload to be installed on the Japanese Experiment Module-Exposed Facility (JEM-EF) on the ISS. It is sc…