Archive for August, 2010

MAXI alert report status in August 2010

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

MAXI team reported three detections of the transient  events  to Astronomer’s Telegram (ATEL) in August, 2010.

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

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Gamma-ray burst (GRB 100823A) detected

Wednesday, August 25th, 2010

MAXI GSC detected a gamma-ray burst (GRB 100823A). The image and the light curves of the burst are shown below. The position of the source came into the field of view of MAXI GSC ~10s before the trigger of Swift/BAT. The burst was seen for about 25s within the transit of ~50s.

GRB 100823A image

MAXI GSC scans the position of the burst from right top to left bottom on the image. The position of the red cross in the image is the position of the burst reported by Swift BAT.

The raw light curve (not corrected for collimator response) of GRB100823A.

The raw light curves (not corrected for collimator response) of GRB100823A.

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