7 Years of MAXI: monitoring X-ray transients

MAXI Highlights
MAXI Transients
Stellar Mass Black Holes
Low Mass X-ray Binaries
  and Superbursts

Binary X-ray Pulsars
Stellar Flares
Active Galactic Nuclei
Gravitational Wave Sources
Gamma-ray Bursts
Hitomi
Instrumentation

MAXI Highlights
MAXI 7 Years Highlights 3
Tatehiro Mihara and the MAXI team
MAXI-SSC Results In 7 Years 9
Hiroshi Tsunemi, Hiroshi Tomida, Satoshi Nakahira, and SSC team
Discovery of 17 X-ray Transients with MAXI/GSC and their Nature 15
Hitoshi Negoro and MAXI team
MAXI Data Archive Plan 21
K. Ebisawa, S. Nahahira, Y. Sugawara, S. Ueno, H. Tomida, T. Furusho, T. Mihara, M. Sugizaki, M. Shidatsu, M. Serino, H. Negoro, Y. Nakagawa, and L. Angelini
The MAXI/GSC catalog in the low Galactic-latitude sky 27
Takafumi Hori, Yoshihiro Ueda, Megumi Shidatsu, Taiki Kawamuro, Atsushi Tanimoto, Saeko Oda, and the MAXI team
MAXI/GSC 7-year all-sky map and studies of large-scale diffuse structures 29
Megumi Shidatsu, Yoshihiro Ueda, Taiki Kawamuro, Takafumi Hori, Satoshi Nakahira, and the MAXI team
Operation and Calibration of MAXI GSC Xe Gas Counters on the ISS for over 7 years 31
Mutsumi Sugizaki, on behalf of MAXI GSC Team
The Current Status of Solid-state Slit Camera aboard MAXI 33
Hiroshi Tomida, Hiroshi Tsunemi, Satoshi Nakahira, and MAXI/SSC team
Energy spectra of bright clusters of galaxies obtained from the MAXI data archive 35
Tae Furusho, Yasuharu Sugawara, Satoshi Nakahira, and Ken Ebisawa
MAXI Transients
The Swift and MAXI Galactic Transient Collaboration 39
Jamie Kennea, Hitoshi Negoro, Phil Evans, Andrew Beardmore, Hans Krimm, Motoko Serino, Patrizia Romano, and Kazutaka Yamaoka
The orbital period of MAXI J1305−704 45
Aarran W. Shaw, Philip A. Charles, Jorge Casares, and Danny Steeghs
Bright novae 49
— Indications of the spectrum of MAXI J0158−744 —
Toshikazu Shigeyama, Kentaro Wada, and Yukari Ohtani
Classification of Hard X-ray Light Curves of Black Hole Binary Transients 53
K. Ebisawa, S. Nahahira, T. Amagasa, F. Hayashi, Jun Fan, J. Sugimoto, and A. Yoshida
Optical Monitoring of the MAXI sources by the optical telescope AROMA-N 55
Yoshiki Kitaoka, Takanori Sakamoto, and Atsumasa Yoshida
A panchromatic overview of accreting binary systems and their associated relativistic jets 57
Stephane Corbel
Search for soft X-ray flashes at the ignition phase of optical novae using GSC data 59
Mikio Morii
Stellar Mass Black Holes
Recent Constraints on Jet physics and Properties Obtained from High Energy Observations of Microquasars 63
Jérôme Rodriguez
Violent Optical Variations and Correlation between Optical and X-ray Variability During the 2015 Outbursts in V404 Cygni 69
Mariko Kimura, Keisuke Isogai, Taichi Kato, Yoshihiro Ueda, Satoshi Nakahira, Megumi Shidatsu, Teruaki Enoto, Takafumi Hori, Daisaku Nogami, Akira Imada, Colin Littlefield, Ryoko Ishioka, Elena P. Pavlenko, Alexei S. Pozanenko, Hyungsuk Tak and the Variable Star Network (VSNET) team
Two optical emission components with different variability in V404 Cygni 73
Y. Tachibana, T. Yoshii, H. Hanayama, and N. Kawai
Observation of the long-term variability of Cygnus X-1 with MAXI 77
Juri Sugimoto, Shunji Kitamoto, Tatehiro Mihara, and the MAXI team
Accretion Flow Properties of three MAXI Black Hole Candidates: Analysis with the TCAF Solution 81
Dipak Debnath, Sandip K. Chakrabarti, Arghajit Jana, D. Chatterjee, A. A. Molla, and S. Mondal
Inflow-Outflow Properties of Accretion Disk around MAXI J1836−194 with TCAF Solution during its 2011 Outburst 87
Arghajit Jana, Dipak Debnath, S. K. Chakrabarti, D. Chatterjee, A. A. Molla, and S. Mondal
Enhanced power spectrum analysis of short-term X-ray variability using MAXI/GSC data 89
Tomofumi Kawase and Hitoshi Negoro
Reinvestigation of the relation between the state transition and the mass accretion rate in black hole candidates 91
Takahiro Masumitsu and Hitoshi Negoro
A model for the `outlier' radio/X-ray correlation in black hole X-ray binaries 93
Erlin Qiao
Suzaku Observation of the Eastern X-ray Lobe of SS 433 95
Hideki Uchiyama and Yuta Kanbe
The broad-band X-ray power spectrum in black hole binaries: from months to milliseconds 97
Magnus Axelsson
X-ray monitering of the Galactic microquasar V4641 Sgr 98
Kazutaka Yamaoka
Low Mass X-ray Binaries and Superbursts
Spectral states in NS-LMXBs observed with MAXI/GSC and Swift/BAT 103
Kazumi Asai, Tatehiro Mihara, Masaru Matsuoka, and Mutsumi Sugizaki
Overview of Spectral Change in NS-LMXB 107
Hiromitsu Takahashi
Unveiling the spectral transition of Aql X-1 from the hard to soft state 111
Ko Ono, Kazuo Makishima, Soki Sakurai, Zhongli Zhang, Kazutaka Yamaoka, and Kazuhiro Nakazawa
The MAXI/GSC X-ray Burst Catalog 115
Takanori Sakamoto, Hikaru Ohtsuki, Motoko Serino, Atsumasa Yoshida, and MAXI team
Hard X-ray study of low mass X-ray binary Sco X-1 with Suzaku 117
Chiho Okada, Hiromitsu Takahashi, Tatsuya Nakaoka, Takao Kitaguchi, Yasushi Fukazawa, Tadayasu Dotani, Yoshitomo Maeda, Satoru Katsuda, Hideyuki Mori, and Murakami Hiroshi
Black holes and Neutron stars in Low Mass X-ray binaries 119
Chris Done
Understanding superbursts 121
Jean in 't Zand
MAXI Detections of Superbursts 129
— Updates on Long X-ray Bursts —
Motoko Serino and Wataru Iwakiri
MAXI/GSC observations of new superbursts from Ser X-1 and 4U 1705−44 133
Wataru B. Iwakiri, Motoko Serino, and Jean in 't Zand
Binary X-ray Pulsars
Monitoring X-ray Binary Pulsars with Fermi/GBM 137
P. A. Jenke and C. A. Wilson-Hodge
Luminosity and spin-up relation in X-ray binary pulsars with MAXI/GSC and Fermi/GBM 143
Mutsumi Sugizaki
MAXI/GSC observation of X-ray outbursts from Be/X-ray binary pulsars 149
Motoki Nakajima, on behalf of the MAXI team
Cyclotron absorption lines in the era of Suzaku and NuSTAR 153
Gaurava K. Jaisawal and Sachindra Naik
X-ray emission of the Be star/pulsar system PSR B1259−63 at non-periastron phases 157
Yuki Ono, Yoichi Yatsu, Mikio Morii, Nobuyuki Kawai, and the MAXI team
Long-term variability of Cen X-3 with MAXI 159
José Joaquín Rodes, Tatehiro Mihara, José Miguel Torrejón, Satoshi Nakahira, Guillermo Bernabéu, and Graciela Sanjurjo
Orbital resolved spectroscopy of GX 301−2 with MAXI-GSC 161
Nazma Islam and Biswajit Paul
SFXTs vs sgHMXBs: does the difference lie in the companion wind? 163
Pragati Pradhan, Biswajit Paul, and Enrico Bozzo
Indications for a long-term periodicity in EXO 2030+375 165
Eva Laplace, Tatehiro Mihara, Yuki Moritani, Motoki Nakajima, Toshihiro Takagi, Kazuo Makishima, and Andrea Santangelo
MAXI Observations of Supergiant Fast X-ray Transients 167
Ai Sakamaki and Hitoshi Negoro
Monitoring Supergiant Fast X-ray Transients with Swift and XMM-Newton 169
Enrico Bozzo
Discovery of keV excess emission in the isolated neutron star RX J1856.5−3754 171
Tomokage Yoneyama
Stellar Flares
Stellar flares detected with MAXI for the past 7 years 175
Yohko Tsuboi, Ryo Sasaki, Yumiko Nakamura, Ken Yabuki, Atsushi Kawagoe, Soichiro Kaneto, Yasuharu Sugawara, Hitoshi Negoro, and the MAXI Team
Transient Magnetars and Magnetic Field Evolution of Neutron Stars 179
Teruaki Enoto
Suzaku/WAM Hard X-ray Observations of Solar Flares 185
— from 2005 to 2014 —
Seiya Yabe, M. S. Tashiro, Y. Terada, T. Yasuda, K. Yamaoka, K. Makishima, W. Iwakiri, M. Yamauchi, N. Ohmori, S. Sugita, Y. Fukazawa, M. Ohno, T. Kawano, T. Takahashi, M. Kokubun, Y. Nakagawa, Y. Urata, K. Nakazawa, on behalf of the Suzaku/WAM team
The X-ray luminosities in quiescent phase for superflare stars 187
Ken Yabuki, Yohko Tsuboi, Ryo Sasaki, Yasuharu Sugawara, Satoru Katsuda, and Hiroyuki Maehara
Statistical research of hyper X-ray flares detected with MAXI 189
— a correlation between the quiescent luminosity and the largest flare energy —
Ryo Sasaki, Yohko Tsuboi, Satoru Katsuda, Ken Yabuki, Yumiko Nakamura, Yasuharu Sugawara, Masaru Matsuoka, and the MAXI team
Super flare candidates detected by XMM-Newton 191
Y. Nakamura, Y. Tsuboi, Y. Terashima, Y. Sugawara, and S. Katsuda
X-ray spectral variability of the colliding wind binary WR140 193
— the origin of the cool plasma component —
Yasuharu Sugawara, Yoshitomo Maeda, Kenji Hamaguchi, and Yohko Tsuboi
Superflares on Sun-like stars 195
Kazunari Shibata
Active Galactic Nuclei
Hard X-ray Luminosity Function of Tidal Disruption Events: First Results from MAXI Extragalactic Survey 199
Taiki Kawamuro, Yoshihiro Ueda, Megumi Shidatsu, Takafumi Hori, Nobuyuki Kawai, Hitoshi Negoro, and Tatehiro Mihara
First Statistical Tests for Clumpy-Torus Models: Constraints from RXTE Monitoring of Seyfert AGN 205
Alex Markowitz, Mirko Krumpe, and Robert Nikutta
A Novel View of AGN Accretion Flows Revealed by X-ray and Optical Monitoring 211
Kazuo Makishima, Hirofumi Noda, Takeo Minezaki, Mitsuru Kokubo, Tomoki Morokuma, Mamoru Doi, Yuki Moritani, Kazuhiro Nakazawa, Makoto Watanabe, Hikaru Nakao, Masataka Imai, Kenji Kawaguchi, Katsutoshi Takagi, Koji S. Kawabata, Tatsuya Nakaoka, Miho Kawabata, Makoto Uemura, Yasushi Fukazawa, Michitoshi Yoshida, Kumiko Morihana, Yoich Itoh, Yuhei Takagi, Akira Arai, Ryosuke Itoh, Yoshihiko Saito, and Shin'ya Yamada
An X-ray spectral variability of fast disk winds in AGN 215
Kouichi Hagino, Hirokazu Odaka, Chris Done, Shin Watanabe, and Tadayuki Takahashi
Revisiting the cosmological evolution of X-ray selected blazars with the Swift/BAT 70-month all sky survey data 221
Koyo Toda, Yoshiyuki Inoue, Yasuyuki Tanaka, and Yasushi Fukazawa
MAXI and AKARI investigation of nearby active galactic nuclei 223
Naoki Isobe, Taiki Kawamuro, Shinki Oyabu, Takao Nakagawa, Shunsuke Baba, Kenichi Yano, Yoshihiro Ueda, and Yoshiki Toba
Kanata optical monitoring of radio galaxy NGC 1275 225
Kensei Shiki, Y. Fukazawa, Y. Tanaka, R. Itoh, K. Takaki, M. Kawabata, T. Nakaoka, T. Abe, N. Kawahara, and J. Hirochi
X-Ray Spectral Variability of the Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 Galaxy NGC 4051 Observed with Suzaku 227
Manami Seino, Hirofumi Noda, Katsuma Miyake, Kazuhiro Nakazawa, and Kazuo Makishima
The new primary X-ray spectral component of IC4329A confirmed with Suzaku and NuSTAR 229
Katsuma Miyake, Hirofumi Noda, Shin'ya Yamada, Kazuo Makishima, and Kazuhiro Nakazawa
Variability Analysis of X-ray spectrum of Blazar OJ 287 from Suzaku/XIS and Swift/XRT (2005–2016) 231
Siti Fatima
Synergetic Growth of the Rayleigh-Taylor and Richtmyer-Meshkov Instabilities in the Relativistic Jet 232
Jin Matsumoto
Multi-wavelength observation of blazar Mrk 421 in extreme X-ray flare 233
Ryosuke Itoh
Gravitational Wave Sources
Binary black hole remnants of first stars for the gravitational wave source 237
Tomoya Kinugawa
Search for X-ray Counterparts of Gravitational Wave Events 241
Nobuyuki Kawai, Motoko Serino, Hitoshi Negoro, on behalf of the MAXI Team
X-ray Transient Localization Experiment aboard a micro-satellite for multi-messenger counterpart search 243
Tatsuya Sawano, Daisuke Yonetoku, Kazuki Yoshida, Yasuaki Kagawa, Kentaro Kawai, Masao Ina, Tatehiro Mihara, and Hirokazu Ikeda
Explore the Transient X-ray Sky with Einstein Probe 247
Weimin Yuan
Development of the Hard X-ray Monitor onboard WF-MAXI 255
Satoshi Sugita, Shohei Harita, Yoichi Yatsu, Naoki, Isobe, Nobuyuki Kawai, Makoto Arimoto, Hirokazu Ikeda, Hiroshi Tomida, Shiro Ueno, Tatehiro Mihara, Motoko Serino, Hiroshi Tsunemi, Atsumasa Yoshida, Takanori Sakamoto, Takayoshi Kohmura, Hitoshi Negoro, Yoshihiro Ueda, Yohko Tsuboi, and Ken Ebisawa
Advanced LIGO First Light: Multimessenger Astrophysics at the Birth of Gravitational-Wave Observatory 257
Leo Singer
Gamma-ray Bursts
Gamma-ray bursts with MAXI and CALET 261
Satoshi Nakahira, on behalf of the CALET team
Localization of Gamma-ray Bursts with BGO Active Shield of the Soft Gamma-ray Detector and Hard X-ray Imager onboard Hitomi 267
Koji Tanaka, Masanori Ohno, Yasushi Fukazawa, Tsunefumi Mizuno, Hiromitsu Takahashi, Takao Kitaguti, Yasuyuki Tanaka, Jun'ichiro Katsuta, Takafumi Kawano, Hiroyuki Shirakawa, Ikumi Edahiro, Sho Habata, Chiho Okada, Norie Ohashi, Tadayuki Takahashi, Motohide Kokubun, Shin Watanabe, Goro Sato, Masayuki Ohta, Koichi Hagino, Rie Sato, Kunishiro Mori, Yusuke Uchida, Miho Katsuragawa, Ryota Tomaru, Hiroki Yoneda, Kazuhiro Nakazawa, Shunsuke Torii, Soki Sakurai, Makoto Sasano, Hidetoshi Nishida, Shogo Kobayashi, Hiroaki Murakami, Ko Ono, Yuichi Kato, Kastuma Miyake, Yoshihiro Furuta, Yuki Murota, Hiroyasu Tajima, Masaomi Kinoshita, Kazutaka Yamaoka, Katsuhiro Hayashi, Jun Kataoka, Tatsuhiko Saito, Masaki Yoshino, Takehiro Mimura, Yoichi Yatsu, Shin'ya Saito, Hideki Uchiyama, Takeshi Nakamori, Shin'ichiro Takeda, Toshio Nakano, Takayuki Yuasa, Yuto Ichinohe, Daisuke Yonetoku, and the Hitomi HXI/SGD team
Suzaku Wide-band All-sky Monitor view of soft gamma-ray transient 269
Masanori Ohno, Kazutaka Yamaoka, Makoto S. Tashiro, Kevin Hurley, Hans A. Krimm, Amy Y. Lien, Norisuke Ohmori, Satoshi Sugita, Yuji Urata, Tetsuya Yasuda, Ryuuji Kinoshita, Yusuke Nishioka, Yoshitaka Hanabata, Jun'ichi Enomoto, Takeshi Fujinuma, Yasushi Fukazawa, Wataru Iwakiri, Takafumi Kawano, Motohide Kokubun, Kazuo Makishima, Shunsuke Matsuoka, Tsutomu Nagayoshi, Yujin Nakagawa, Souhei Nakaya, Kazuhiro Nakazawa, Takanori Sakamoto, Tadayuki Takahashi, Sawako Takeda, Yukikatsu Terada, Seiya Yabe, and Makoto Yamauchi
Energy response function of CALET Gamma ray Burst Monitor 271
Y. Yamada, T. Sakamoto, A. Yoshida, for the CALET collaboration
Overview and first year observation of CALET Gamma ray Burst Monitor 273
Yuta Kawakubo, Atsumasa Yoshida, Takanori Sakamoto, for the CALET collaboration
Extremely Soft X-ray Flash as the indicator of off-axis orphan GRB afterglow 275
Yuji Urata, Kuiyun Huang, Ryo Yamazaki, and Takanori Sakamoto
Gamma-ray burst observation for eight and half year by Akeno MITSuME telescope 277
Taichi Fujiwara, Yoshihiko Saito, Ryosuke Itoh, Yutaro Tachibana, Yuki Ono, Kotaro Morita, Kouta Saisho, and Nobuyuki Kawai
The first Suzaku/WAM Gamma-ray Burst catalog 279
Norisuke Ohmori, Kazutaka Yamaoka, Masanori Ohno, Satoshi Sugita, Hiraku Yoshida, Makoto Yamauchi, Kevin Hurley, Yuji Urata, and Makoto Tashiro
SGRB rate from Yonetoku relation for SGRB and the detectability of GW in O2 of aLIGO/aVirgo 281
Takashi Nakamura
GRB radio view from all angles 282
Alexander J. van der Horst
POLAR – The gamma-ray burst polarimetry experiment onboard China's TG-2 spacelab 283
Shuang-Nan Zhang
Hitomi
Hitomi observation of the Perseus cluster 287
— gas motions and resonant scattering —
Kosuke Sato, Maki Furukawa, Toru Sasaki, Kyoko Matsushita, Frits Paerels, Irina Zhuravleva, Anna Ogorzalek, Norbert Werner, Steve Allen, Hiroya Yamaguchi, Greg Brown, Shinya Nakashima, Yasushi Fukazawa, Masanori Ohno, Tetsu Kitayama, Brian McNamara, and the Hitomi collaboration
Hitomi observation of the Perseus cluster 288
— temperature and elemental abundances —
Shinya Nakashima, Hiroya Yamaguchi, Kosuke Sato, Kyoko Matsushita, Aurora Simionescu, Marshall Bautz, and the Hitomi Collaboration
Hitomi Results of NGC 1275: The Origin of Fe-Kα Line 289
Hirofumi Noda, Yasushi Fukazawa, Koichi Hagino, Masanori Ohno, Masahiro Tsujimoto, Takaaki Tanaka, Hiroyuki Uchida, Taiki Kawamuro, Francesco Tombesi, Scott Porter, Caroline Kilbourne, Laura Brenneman, Christpher Reynolds, Richard Mushotzky, and the Hitomi collaboration
Hitomi Observations of Supernova Remnants N132D and G21.5-0.9 291
Satoru Katsuda, Hiroya Yamaguchi, Makoto Sawada, Eric D. Miller, Kumiko Nobukawa, Masayoshi Nobukawa, Takaaki Tanaka, Hiroshi Nakajima, Aya Bamba, John P. Hughes, Masahiro Tsujimoto, Toshiki Sato, Kosuke Sato, Lorella Angelini, Benson Guest, Hiroyuki Uchida, Hiromitsu Takahashi, Yukikatsu Terada, Shu Koyama, Kenya Oshimizu, Caroline A. Kilbourne, Katsuji Koyama, Samar Safi-Harb, Brian J. Williams, and the Hitomi Collaboration
Atomic data and spectral modeling constraints from high-resolution X-ray spectroscopic observations of the Perseus cluster with Hitomi 292
M. Sawada, J. Kaastra, L. Gu, H. Akamatsu, J. de Plaa, C. de Vries, R. Smith, A. Foster, H. Odaka, M. Leutenegger, M. Markevitch, C. Kilbourne, H. Yamaguchi, G. Brown, F. Paerels, N. Ota, T. Tamura, S. Nakashima, S. Ueda, K. Matsushita, K. Sato, R. Mushotzky, T. Ohashi, and Hitomi Collaboration
Hitomi Observation of the Highly Obscured High-Mass X-ray Binary IGR J16318−4848 293
Hiroshi Nakajima, Kiyoshi Hayashida, Tim Kallman, Caroline Kilbourne, and the Hitomi Collaboration
The Hard X-ray Imager onboard Hitomi (ASTRO-H) 295
Kazuhiro Nakazawa, Goro Sato, Motohide Kokubun, Teruaki Enoto, Yasushi Fukazawa, Kouichi Hagino, Atsushi Harayama, Katsuhiro Hayashi, Jun Kataoka, Junichiro Katsuta, Philippe Laurent, Francois Lebrun, Olivier Limousin, Kazuo Makishima, Tsunefumi Mizuno, Kunishiro Mori, Takeshi Nakamori, Toshio Nakano, Hirofumi Noda, Hirokazu Odaka, Masanori Ohno, Masayuki Ohta, Shinya Saito, Rie Sato, Hiroyasu Tajima, Hiromitsu Takahashi, Tadayuki Takahashi, Shin'ichiro Takeda, Yukikatsu Terada, Hideki Uchiyama, Yasunobu Uchiyama, Shin Watanabe, Kazutaka Yamaoka, Yoichi Yatsu, Takayuki Yuasa, and the HXI team
In-flight performance of the Soft Gamma-ray Detector (SGD) onboard Hitomi 297
Yasushi Fukazawa, Hiroyasu Tajima, Shin Watanabe, Roger Blandford, Teruaki Enoto, Andrea Goldwurm, Kouichi Hagino, Katsuhiro Hayashi, Yuto Ichinohe, Jun Kataoka, Junichiro Katsuta, Takao Kitaguchi, Motohide Kokubun, Philippe Laurent, François Lebrun, Olivier Limousin, Grzegorz M. Madejski, Kazuo Makishima, Tsunefumi Mizuno, Kunishiro Mori, Takeshi Nakamori, Toshio Nakano, Kazuhiro Nakazawa, Hirofumi Noda, Hirokazu Odaka, Masanori Ohno, Masayuki Ohta, Shinya Saito, Goro Sato, Rie Sato, Shin'ichiro Takeda, Hiromitsu Takahashi, Tadayuki Takahashi, Takaaki Tanaka, Yasuyuki Tanaka, Yukikatsu Terada, Hideki Uchiyama, Yasunobu Uchiyama, Kazutaka Yamaoka, Yoichi Yatsu, Daisuke Yonetoku, and Takayuki Yuasa
Development and in-orbit performance of all-sky monitoring function of BGO active shield of the soft gamma-ray detector onboard Hitomi 299
Masanori Ohno, Yasushi Fukazawa, Tsunefumi Mizuno, Hiromitsu Takahashi, Takao Kitaguti, Yasuyuki Tanaka, Jun'ichiro Katsuta, Takafumi Kawano, Hiroyuki Shirakawa, Ikumi Edahiro, Sho Habata, Chiho Okada, Norie Ohashi, Koji Tanaka, Tadayuki Takahashi, Motohide Kokubun, Shin Watanabe, Goro Sato, Masayuki Ohta, Koichi Hagino, Rie Sato, Kunishiro Mori, Yusuke Uchida, Miho Katsuragawa, Ryota Tomaru, Hiroki Yoneda, Kazuhiro Nakazawa, Shunsuke Torii, Soki Sakurai, Makoto Sasano, Hidetoshi Nishida, Shogo Kobayashi, Hiroaki Murakami, Ko Ono, Yuichi Kato, Kastuma Miyake, Yoshihiro Furuta, Yuki Murota, Hiroyasu Tajima, Masaomi Kinoshita, Kazutaka Yamaoka, Katsuhiro Hayashi, Jun Kataoka, Tatsuhiko Saito, Masaki Yoshino, Takehiro Mimura, Yoichi Yatsu, Shin'ya Saito, Hideki Uchiyama, Takeshi Nakamori, Shin'ichiro Takeda, Toshio Nakano, Takayuki Yuasa, Yuto Ichinohe, Daisuke Yonetoku, and the Hitomi HXI/SGD team
Instrumentation
X-ray Polarimetry Mission PRAXyS 305
Toru Tamagawa, on behalf of the PRAXyS team
End-to-End Test of the Mirror and Polarimeter of PRAXyS 307
Toshio Nakano, Toru Tamagawa, Wataru Iwakiri, Asami Hayato, Megu Kubota, Kazuki Nishida, Takao Kitaguchi, Koyo Toda, Noriyuki Tanaka, Tsunefumi Mizuno, Teruaki Enoto, Ikuyuki Mitsuishi, Yuzuru Tawara, Shota Inoue, Kiyoshi Hayashida, Keith Jahoda, Joe Hill, Ross McCurdy, and PRAXyS team
iWF-MAXI : Soft X-ray Transient Monitor on the ISS 309
N. Kawai, Y. Yatsu, N. Isobe, S. Sugita, S. Harita, H. Tomida, S. Ueno, K. Ebisawa, T. Dotani, T. Mihara, M. Serino, M. Arimoto, H. Tsunemi, T. Sakamoto, T. Kohmura, H. Negoro, Y. Ueda, T. Nakamura, T. Tanaka, Y. Tsuboi, M. Morii, M. Yoshida, N. Kanda, and M. Vagins
A broadband X-ray imaging spectroscopy with high-angular resolution: the FORCE mission 311
Koji Mori, Takeshi Go Tsuru, Kazuhiro Nakazawa, Yoshihiro Ueda, Takashi Okajima, Hiroshi Murakami, Hisamitsu Awaki, Hironori Matsumoto, Yasushi Fukazawa, Hiroshi Tsunemi, and Tadayuki Takahashi
Development of X-ray SOI pixel sensors for future X-ray wide field cameras 313
Hideki Hayashi, T. G. Tsuru, T. Tanaka, H. Uchida, H. Matsumura, M. Itou, S. Ohmura, Y. Arai, I. Kurachi, K. Mori, A. Takeda, Y. Nishioka, N. Takebayashi, S. Yokoyama, T. Kohmura, K. Tamasawa, K. Negishi, K. Oono, K. Yarita, S. Nakashima, S. Kawahito, K. Kagawa, K. Yasutomi, H. Kamehara, and S. Shrestha
Micro-satellite for Astrometry and Photometry of Gravitational Wave Sources 315
S. Harita, T. Ozawa, T. Yoshii, Y. Yatsu, N. Kawai, T. Tawara, M. Matsunaga, N. Tominaga, S. Kulkarni, P. Bilgi, T. Sakamoto, N. Vasquez
Development of the Solar Neutron Monitor on the ChubuSat-2 Satellite 317
Kazutaka Yamaoka, Takuya Miyazawa, Shinji Oseki, Yasunobu Babazaki, Yuki Hayashi, Daisuke Ishihara, Kazuya Itoh, Hidehiro Kaneda, Hiroaki Kawahara, Shin Kubo, Koji Matsushita, Kikuko Miyata, Hosei Nagano, Yasutaka Narusawa, Masaki Nishino, Sosuke Noda, Daeil Park, Masaaki Sadamoto, Hiroyasu Tajima, Keisuke Tamura, Hidetaka Tanaka, Dao Ngoc Hanh Tam, Toyoki Watabe, and Qidong Zhou
Development of an in-orbit radiation environment monitor CUBES onboard a small satellite MIST 319
Nagomi Uchida, Tatsuya Nakaoka, Hiromitsu Takahashi, Tsunefumi Mizuno, Yasushi Fukazawa, Mark Pearce, and Theodor-Adrian Stana
Some early results from Astrosat 323
Biswajit Paul
The Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope Mission 324
Shuang-Nan Zhang