7 years of MAXI : monitoring X-ray transients

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7 years of MAXI : monitoring X-ray transients


5-7 December,2016
Suzuki Umetaro Hall, RIKEN
2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama, 351-0198, Japan
RIKEN symposium


 

 

17 X-ray Novae in 6 years by MAXI

This workshop will be held to celebrate the successful 7 years of observation with Monitor of All-sky X-ray Image (MAXI), a Japanese astrophysics payload on the International Space Station. Since the launch in 2009, MAXI has been monitoring the variable X-ray sky, and has discovered 17 new X-ray sources.
Often with a help of multi-wavelength follow-up observations, one of them has been identified with the nuclear ignition of a massive nova, 6 with black-hole binaries, and 5 with those involving neutron stars.
Nevertheless, 4 of them remain unidentified, and are considered to form a potentially new class of short soft transients. MAXI is also leading the time-domain astronomy, with its capability to issue alerts which triggers prompt follow-up observations in the optical and other wavelengths.
So far, MAXI has detected about a hundred gamma-ray bursts, and performing unbiased watch for stellar flares. In addition, long-term X-ray variations of about a hundred of sources are continuously tracked with MAXI.
This has enabled a variety of new astrophysics that cannot be achieved by snapshot observations. The recent detections of the gravitation wave events have significantly increased the importance of MAXI as a currently operating all-sky monitor, and as a member of multi-messenger astronomy which covers electromagnetic waves, neutrinos, and gravitational waves.
In this symposium, the MAXI results obtained during the 7 years are reviewed, with a session assigned to those from Hitomi. The symposium also covers new prospects in the time-domain astronomy, to be developed with future X-ray missions/instruments. 

Topics 
- MAXI transients 
- Stellar Mass BH 
- AGN 
- Low Mass X-ray Binaries 
- Superbursts 
- Binary X-ray Pulsars 
- Stellar Flares 
- Hitomi Results 
- GRB 
- Gravitational Wave Sources 

Confirmed speakers 
- Paul Biswajit (Raman Research Institute, India) 
- Chris Done (University of Durham, UK) 
- Ken Ebisawa (ISAS, Japan) 
- Jean in 't Zand (SRON, Netherlands)
- Peter Jenke (UAH/CSPAR, USA) 
- Nobuyuki Kawai (Tokyo Tech., Japan) 
- Taiki Kawamuro (Kyoto univ., Japan) 
- Jamie Kennea (Pennsylvania State Univ., USA) 
- Alex Markowitz (UC, San Diego, USA) 
- Tatehiro Mihara (RIKEN, Japan) 
- Motoki Nakajima (Nihon dent. col., Japan) 
- Hitoshi Negoro (Nihon Univ., Japan) 
- Jerome Rodroguez (CEA Saclay, France) 
- Leo Singer (GSFC/NASA, USA) 
- Takanori Sakamoto (Aoyama Gakuin Univ., Japan)
- Motoko Serino (RIKEN, Japan) 
- Kazunari Shibata (Kyoto Univ., Japan)
- Mutsumi Sugizaki (RIKEN, Japan) 
- Hiromitsu Takahashi (Hiroshima Univ., Japan) 
- Yohko Tsuboi (Chuo Univ., Japan) 
- Hiroshi Tsunemi (Osaka Univ., Japan) 
- Alexander van der Horst (George Washington Univ., USA)
- Weimin Yuan (National astronomical observatory, China) 
- Shuangnan Zhang (High energy research institute, China)

Support
This symposium is supported by RIKEN through the RIKEN Symposium scheme,
and by the Society for Promotion of Space Science (宇宙科学振興会) through 
the program for supporting international symposia (国際会議開催支援プログラム).

Participants
  • Aarran Shaw
  • Ai Sakamaki
  • Alex Markowitz
  • Alexander van der Horst
  • Andrea Santangelo
  • Anna Ho
  • Argha Jit JANA
  • Atsumasa Yoshida
  • Atsushi Tanimoto
  • Biswajit Paul
  • Chifumi hanyu
  • Chiho Okada
  • Chris Done
  • Dipak Debnath
  • Enrico Bozzo
  • Erlin Qiao
  • Eva Laplace
  • Gaurava Kumar Jaisawal
  • Hajime Inoue
  • Haruka Ohuchi
  • Hideki Hayashi
  • Hideki Uchiyama
  • Hirofumi Noda
  • Hiromitsu Takahashi
  • Hiroshi Nakajima
  • Hiroshi Tomida
  • Hiroshi Tsunemi
  • Hitoshi Negoro
  • Jamie Kennea
  • Jean in 't Zand
  • Jerome Rodriguez
  • Jin MATSUMOTO
  • Jose Joaquin Rodes Roca
  • Jose M. Torrejon
  • Juri Sugimoto
  • Katsuma Miyake
  • Kazuhiro Nakazawa
  • Kazuki Tanaka
  • Kazumi Asai
  • Kazunari Shibata
  • Kazuo Makishima
  • Kazutaka Yama
  • Kazutaka Yamaoka
  • Ken Ebisawa
  • Ken Ebisawa
  • Ken Yabuki
  • Kenichiro Furuya
  • Kensei Shiki
  • Kentaro Wada
  • Kiyoshi Hayashida
  • Ko Ono
  • Koji Mori
  • Koji Tanaka
  • Kosuke Sato
  • Kouichi Hagino
  • Kouki hidaka
  • Koyo Toda
  • Leo Singer
  • Magnus Axelsson
  • Makoto Sawada
  • Makoto Tashiro
  • Makoto Yamauchi
  • Manabu Ishida
  • Manami Seino
  • Mariko Kimura
  • Masa Sakano
  • Masanori Ohno
  • Masanori Ohno
  • Masaru Matsuoka
  • Megumi Shidatsu
  • Mikio Morii
  • Motoki Nakajima
  • Motoko Serino
  • Murli Manohar Verma
  • Mutsumi Sugizaki
  • Mutsumi Sugizaki
  • Nagomi Uchida
  • Naoki Isobe
  • Nazma Islam
  • Nobuyuki Kawai
  • Nobuyuki Kawai
  • Norisuke Ohmori
  • Osamu Nishimura
  • Peter Jenke
  • Pragati Pradhan
  • Robin Corbet
  • Ryo Sasaki
  • Ryosuke Itoh
  • Saeko Oda
  • Sam Connolly
  • Satoru Katsuda
  • Satoshi Nakahira
  • Satoshi Sugita
  • Seiya Yabe
  • Shinya Nakashima
  • Shohei Harita
  • Shuang-Nan Zhang
  • Shuang-Nan Zhang
  • Siti Fatima
  • Stephane CORBEL
  • Susumu Inoue
  • Tae Furusho
  • Taichi Fujiwara
  • Taiki Kawamuro
  • Takafumi Hori
  • Takahiro Masumitsu
  • Takanori Sakamoto
  • Takashi Nakamura
  • Takaya Ohashi
  • Takayuki Yamamoto
  • Taketoshi Yoshii
  • Tatehiro Mihara
  • Tatsuya Sawano
  • Teruaki Enoto
  • Tomofumi Kawase
  • Tomokage Yoneyama
  • Tomoya Kinugawa
  • Toru Tamagawa
  • Toshihiro Takagi
  • Toshikazu Shigeyama
  • Toshio Nakano
  • Wataru Iwakiri
  • Weimin Yuan
  • Yasuharu Sugawara
  • Yasushi Fukazawa
  • Yohko Tsuboi
  • Yoshihiro Ueda
  • Yoshiki Kitaoka
  • Yuji Urata
  • Yuki Ono
  • Yumiko Nakamura
  • Yusuke Yamada
  • Yuta Kawakubo
  • Yutaro Tachibana