Monitor of All-sky X-ray Image (MAXI) on the International Space Station (ISS) has two kinds of X-ray detectors: the Gas Slit Camera (GSC) and the Solid-state Slit Camera (SSC). SSC is an X-ray CCD array, consisting of 16 chips, which has the best energy resolution as an X-ray all-sky monitor in the energy band of 0.5 to 10 keV. Each chip consists of 1024x1024 pixels with a pixel size of 24μm, thus the total area is ~200 cm^2. We have developed an engineering model of SSC, i.e., CCD chips, electronics, the software and so on, and have constructed the calibration system. We here report the current status of the development and the calibration of SSC.
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0107445,
title = {SSC of MAXI experiment},
author = {M. Sakano and H. Tomida and M. Matsuoka and S. Ueno and S. Komatsu and Y. Shirasaki and M. Sugizaki and K. Torii and W. Yuan and E. Miyata and H. Tsunemi and T. Kamazuka and C. Natsukari and M. Jobashi and I. Tanaka and N. Kawai and T. Mihara and H. Negoro and A. Yoshida},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0107445},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
To appear in the Proc. of "MAXI Workshop on AGN Variability", 10-11 March 2001, Nikko, Japan (5 pages, 5 Figs, requires psbox.sty), also found in http://www-maxi.tksc.nasda.go.jp/%7Esakano/work/paper/ index-e.html#Sakano2001MAXI