MAXI News

The “First Light” image of MAXI has been released.  It is shown at the top page of this site.   In the first light image of MAXI, accumulated with the GSC for one ISS orbit, we can easily recognize about 20 bright Galactic sources.  A preliminary analysis suggests that GSC achieved about 20-30 mCrab sensitivity in one orbit, mostly consistent with the pre-flight estimation (Matsuoka et al 2009, accepted for PASJ, http://arxiv.org/abs/0906.0631).
We will spend about two month to understand the instrument characteristics in orbit, the flight operations, and data processing before we start public release of the images and light curves.

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