3 papers
astro-ph.HE2010
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
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
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…