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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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astro-ph.HE2026

A0538-66: A transient ultraluminous X-ray source with a relativistic outflow, 69ms pulsations, and anomalous optical activity

Lorenzo Ducci, Sandro Mereghetti, Ciro Pinto +8

A0538-66 is a peculiar Be/X-ray binary in the Large Magellanic Cloud, hosting the fastest spinning neutron star of its class (~69ms) and showing the brightest optical bursts of any…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 2 cited

Thermonuclear superburst of MAXI J1752457 observed with NinjaSat and MAXI

Amira Aoyama, Teruaki Enoto, Takuya Takahashi +17

An uncatalogued bright X-ray transient was detected with MAXI on November 9, 2024, named MAXI J1752457. The NinjaSat X-ray observatory promptly observed the source from November…

astro-ph.HE2025

Optical Observations of the High Mass X-ray Binary MAXI J0709159/LY CMa

Megumi Shidatsu, Nobuyuki Kawai, Hiroyuki Maehara +12

We report on the optical spectroscopic monitoring of the X-ray transient MAXI J0709159 (identified as the Be star LY CMa) performed for about 1.5 months after the X-ray detectio…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 2 cited

Discovery of a new supergiant fast X-ray transient MAXI J0709-159 associated with the Be star LY CMa

Mutsumi Sugizaki, Tatehiro Mihara, Kohei Kobayashi +10

We report on the discovery of a new supergiant fast X-ray transient (SFXT), MAXI J0709159, and its identification with LY CMa (also known as HD 54786). On 2022 January 25, a new…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 10 cited

X-ray emission evolution of the Galactic ultra-luminous X-ray pulsar Swift J0243.6+6124 during the 2017-2018 outburst observed by the MAXI GSC

Mutsumi Sugizaki, Motoki Oeda, Nobuyuki Kawai +3

This paper reports on the X-ray emission evolution of the ultra-luminous Galactic X-ray pulsar, Swift J0243.6+6124, during the 2017-2018 giant outburst observed by the MAXI GSC. Th…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 17 cited

An application of the Ghosh & Lamb model to the accretion powered X-ray pulsar X Persei

Fumiaki Yatabe, Kazuo Makishima, Tatehiro Mihara +5

The accretion-induced pulse-period changes of the Be/X-ray binary pulsar X Persei were investigated over a period of 1996 January to 2017 September. This study utilized the monitor…