Development status and performance estimation of MAXI

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5488, Issue PART 1, 2004, Pages 197-208

  Ueno, Shiro ^a   Tomida, Hiroshi ^a   Isobe, Naoki ^a   Katayama, Haruyoshi ^a   Kawasaki, Kazuyoshi ^a   Yokota, Takao ^a   Kuramata, Naoyuki ^a   Matsuoka, Masaru ^a   Mihara, Tatehiro ^b   Sakurai, Ikuya ^b   Nakajima, Motoki ^b   Kohama, Mitsuhiro ^b   Tsunemi, Hiroshi ^c   Miyata, Emi ^c   Kawai, Nobuyuki ^d   Kataoka, Jun ^d   Serino, Yuuri ^d   Yamamoto, Yoshihisa ^d   Yoshida, Atsumasa ^e   Negor, Hitoshi ^f  

^a JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^b INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Tokyo Institute of Technology ^*  (Japan)

^e AOYAMA GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

All sky X ray Monitor; ISS; JEM; Kibo; MAXI; X ray Astronomy

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; EARTH (PLANET); INTERNET; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPACE STATIONS; X RAY ANALYSIS;

ALL-SKY X-RAY MONITOR; INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION (ISS); JAPANESE EXPERIMENT MODULE (JEM); KIBO; MONITOR OF ALL-SKY X-RAY IMAGE (MAXI); X-RAY ASTRONOMY;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 10044243898     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.550784     Document Type: Conference Paper

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