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English:The X-ray CCD camera of the MAXI experiment on the ISS//JEM 
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Japanese: Miyata, E., Tsunemi, H., Ogata, H., Akutsu, D., Yoshita, K., Hashimoto, Y., Torii, K., Matsuoka, M., 河合 誠之, Yoshida, A., Mihara, T., Kotani, T., Negoro, H., Kubo, H., Matsumoto, H., Shirasaki, Y., Rubin, B. C., Sakurai, I., Yamauchi, M. ..  
English: Miyata, E., Tsunemi, H., Ogata, H., Akutsu, D., Yoshita, K., Hashimoto, Y., Torii, K., Matsuoka, M., Kawai, N., Yoshida, A., Mihara, T., Kotani, T., Negoro, H., Kubo, H., Matsumoto, H., Shirasaki, Y., Rubin, B. C., Sakurai, I., Yamauchi, M. ..  
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English:Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 
Volume, Number, Page Vol. 436        pp. 91-95
Published date Oct. 1999 
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Abstract Monitor of All-sky X-ray Image (MAXI), is the X-ray observatory on the Japanese experimental module (JEM) Exposed Facility (EF) on the International Space Station (ISS). MAXI is a slit scanning camera which consists of two kinds of X-ray detectors: one is a one-dimensional position-sensitive proportional counter with a total area of ~5000cm2, the Gas Slit Camera (GSC), and the other is an X-ray CCD array with a total area of ~200cm2, the Solid-state Slit Camera (SSC). The GSC subtends a field of view with an angular dimension of /1°×180° while the SSC subtends a field of view with an angular dimension of /1° times a little less than /180°. In the course of one station orbit, MAXI can scan almost the entire sky with a precision of /1° and with an X-ray energy range of 0.5-30 keV. We have developed the engineering model of CCD chips and the analogue electronics for the SSC. The energy resolution of EM CCD for Mn Kα has a full-width at half-maximum of /~=182 eV. Readout noise is ~=11e- rms.

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