Observation of GRB afterglows with MAXI on JEM/ISS

¹ The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, 2-1, Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
² National Space Development Agency of Japan, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8505, Japan
³ Osaka University, Earth and Space Science, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan
⁴ Miyazaki University, Faculty of Engineering, Gakuen-kihanadai-nishi, Miyazaki 880-2155, Japan

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Received: 21 January 1999
Accepted: 9 July 1999

Abstract

MAXI is an X-ray all-sky-monitor which will be on the Japanese Experiment Module of the International Space Station. Its objective is to monitor X-ray sources over the entire sky with the sensitivity of less than 3 mCrab in 1 day. The GRB afterglow is one possible objective. One could expect ~25 afterglows to be detected a year at the early stage with this experiment.