Place: Wako, Saitama, Japan
MAXI, an X-ray all-sky monitor mission on the Japanese Experiment Module of
the International Space Station, scheduled to be launched in March 2009, is
currently in the final test phase. We will hold this workshop to inform the
MAXI capability widely to the scientists in the world, to discuss the MAXI's
science and to maximize its scientific output. We will invite several speakers
and call for contributed short talks and posters.
Due to the unprecedented sensitivity of a few milliCrab in a day covering most
of the sky, MAXI can monitor the variability of a large number of X-ray sources
at much lower flux levels than is possible with the current all-sky or
wide-field missions. Its science output will be greatly enhanced by the joint
multiwavelength observations with contemporary missions such as INTEGRAL,
Swift, GLAST, and ground-based optical/NIR/radio observatories, as well as
deep follow-up observations in X-rays by Suzaku, XMM-Newton or Chandra.
Collaboration with future X-ray all-sky survey programs, such as eRosita and
Lobster will be also useful.
The featured themes for this program are:
* MAXI Mission and its capability
* MAXI Observations of AGNs
(flares and long-term monitoring, multi-wavelength)
* MAXI Observations of the galactic variable sources
(accreting binaries containing compact objects, active stars)
* MAXI Observations of the gamma-ray bursts, X-ray flashes and supernovae
* MAXI Observations of large-scale diffuse emissions
(Galactic center, ridge, oxygen and iron lines)
* Related theories
