The 37-month MAXI/GSC source catalog in the high Galactic-latitude sky
Abstract
We present the catalog of high Galactic-latitude () X-ray sources detected in the first 37-month data of Monitor of All-sky X-ray Image (MAXI) / Gas Slit Camera (GSC). To achieve the best sensitivity, we develop a background model of the GSC that well reproduces the data based on the detailed on-board calibration. Source detection is performed through image fit with the Poisson likelihood algorithm. The catalog contains 500 objects detected in the 4--10 keV band with significance of . The limiting sensitivity is ergs cm s ( mCrab) in the 4--10 keV band for 50% of the survey area, which is the highest ever achieved as an all-sky survey mission covering this energy band. We summarize the statistical properties of the catalog and results from cross matching with the Swift/BAT 70-month catalog, the meta-catalog of X-ray detected clusters of galaxies, and the MAXI/GSC 7-month catalog. Our catalog lists the source name (2MAXI), position and its error, detection significances and fluxes in the 4--10 keV and 3--4 keV bands, their hardness ratio, and basic information of the likely counterpart available for 296 sources.
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@article{arxiv.1307.2455,
title = {The 37-month MAXI/GSC source catalog in the high Galactic-latitude sky},
author = {Kazuo Hiroi and Yoshihiro Ueda and Masaaki Hayashida and Megumi Shidatsu and Ryosuke Sato and Taiki Kawamuro and Mutsumi Sugizaki and Satoshi Nakahira and Motoko Serino and Nobuyuki Kawai and Masaru Matsuoka and Tatehiro Mihara and Mikio Morii and Motoki Nakajima and Hitoshi Negoro and Takanori Sakamoto and Hiroshi Tomida and Yohko Tsuboi and Hiroshi Tsunemi and Shiro Ueno and Kazutaka Yamaoka and Atsumasa Yoshida and Masato Asada and Satoshi Eguchi and Takanori Hanayama and Masaya Higa and Kazuto Ishikawa and Masaki Ishikawa and Naoki Isobe and Mitsuhiro Kohama and Masashi Kimura and Kumiko Morihana and Yujin E. Nakagawa and Yuki Nakano and Yasunori Nishimura and Yuji Ogawa and Masayuki Sasaki and Juri Sugimoto and Toshihiro Takagi and Ryuichi Usui and Takayuki Yamamoto and Makoto Yamauchi and Koshiro Yoshidome},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1307.2455},
year = {2015}
}
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21 pages, 15 figures, 3 tables, accepted for publication in ApJS