MAXI team reported three detections of the transient events to Astronomer’s Telegram (ATEL) in October, 2010.
2990: Short X-ray Transient Detection by MAXI/GSC Tomida 2010 Oct 31 9:49
2970: MAXI/GSC detects a new activity from Be pulsar A0535+262 Mihara, 2010 Oct 25 21:33
2959: MAXI/GSC detects an X-ray transient MAXI J1409-619 Yamaoka, 2010 Oct 20 11:06
We open daily spectra of ten bright sources today. There is a spectrum plot following light curves and images for each source page. The spectrum is fitted with wabs * power-law model and the parameters are written in the plot. One can download the spectrum, background and response files by clicking “Download spectrum, background and response” below the plot. After extracting the tar.gz file, one can fit the spectrum with your XSPEC software. The sources whose spectrum is available are Crab, Sco X-1, Cen X-3, Her X-1, GX 9+9, GX 9+1, GX 13+1, GX 17+2, GRS 1915+105, and Cyg X-2.
The daily spectrum of Crab, which is available at http://maxi.riken.jp/top/index.php?cid=1&jname=J0534+220
We reported in Atel#2970 (Mihara et al.) that MAXI/GSC detected a new activity from X-ray pulsar A0535+262. The figure shows the recent four light curves folded with 115-day outburst period. The current consecutive activities exhibit the outbursts and precursor events at phases ~0.2 and ~0.95, respectively. The phase zero is taken at MJD 55153.5, which is the periastron passage prior to the previous giant outburst.
The MAXI/GSC has detected a faint X-ray transient, MAXI J1409-619, with a position of (R.A., Dec) = (212.26, -61.95) = (14h09m02s.4, -61d57m00s.0) (J2000) with a typical error of about 0.2 degrees.
The 4-10 keV images and light curves taken by GSC are shown below. Detailed results will be reported in an ATel. The bright dMe star 1RXS J141108.2-615601 is marginally within an error circle, but follow-up observations are required to solve the nature of this source.
