Archive for November, 2009

MAXI alert report status in November, 2009

Monday, November 30th, 2009

The MAXI team reported  one detection of the transient  events  to Astronomer’s Telegram (ATEL)
in November.

And MAXI team also reported one Gamma-ray burst  event to GCN: The Gamma-ray bursts Coordinates Network.

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All-sky Image released

Thursday, November 26th, 2009

20091126_maxi_1l
This is an X-ray all-sky image from the MAXI GSC observations from August 15 to October 29, 2009. The color indicates the hardness of the X-ray sources: the red sources are “soft”, i.e. emit more low-energy X-rays, while the blue sources are “hard”, i.e. emit more X-rays with higher energies.

Press release:

http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2009/11/20091126_maxi_e.html

(Japanese) http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2009/11/20091126_maxi_j.html

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