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 (CCDs) in 0.5--12\,keV band. The total area for the X-ray detection is about 200\,cm2 which is the largest among the missions of X-ray astronomy. The energy resolution at the CCD temperature of −70 \degc is 145\,eV in full width at the half maximum (FWHM) at 5.9\,keV, and the field of view is 1\deg .5 (FWHM) × 90\deg for each sensor. The SSC could make a whole-sky image with the energy resolution good enough to resolve line emissions, and monitor the whole-sky at the energy band of < 2\,keV for the first time in these decades.
@article{arxiv.1101.3651,
title = {Solid-state Slit Camera (SSC) on Board MAXI},
author = {Hiroshi Tomida and Hiroshi Tsunemi and Masashi Kimura and Hiroki Kitayama and Masaru Matsuoka and Shiro Ueno and Kazuyoshi Kawasaki and Haruyoshi Katayama and Kazuhisa Miyaguchi and Kentaro Maeda and Arata Daikyuji and Naoki Isobe},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1101.3651},
year = {2015}
}