MAXI 15 Year Workshop for the Time Domain Astronomy
We are happy to announce that we will hold
the MAXI 15 Year Workshop for the Time Domain Astronomy
on December 10-12, 2024, at Nihon university, Tokyo Japan
to celebrate the decade of successful operation of MAXI, or Monitor of All-sky X-ray Image, an X-ray all-sky monitor onboard the Japanese Experiment Module of the International Space Station.
In 1997, we organized the First MAXI Workshop at RIKEN entitled "All-Sky X-ray Observations of the Next Decade". From then, it took more than a decade for MAXI to start observing on orbit.Two decades later, time-domain astronomy is playing in the central arena of studies in the physics of the Universe, with MAXI watching the variable X-ray sky since August 15, 2009.
Currently, wide-sky discovery engines, like Swift, EP and MAXI, provide the astrophysical transients to follow. Ground based facilities, such as ZTF and ASSAS-SN, are also finding cornucopia of new sources to explore, augmented by recent additions of observatories for non-electromagnetic messengers, namely, gravitational waves and neutrinos.
For follow-up observations of these transients, telescopes with flexible scheduling capabilities are becoming more important. In space, telescopes on Swift, NuSTAR, and NICER have been aggressively following transients. Automatic follow-up system ion ISS, OHMAN has been functioning. On the ground, small to medium sized telescopes are found to be very useful for these
studies. Big observatories, both ground- or space-based, remain important in cases where sensitivities or high resolution are essential.
MAXI has been uniformly scanning the entire sky for the 15 years, and has been regularly reporting the discoveries to Astronomers Telegram and GCN; detections of outbursts of new or previously known X-ray sources including discoveries of 14 new galactic black holes binaries, a hundred of gamma-ray bursts, tens of giant stellar flares, and a couple of very rare phenomena, namely the relativistic tidal disruption event Swift J1644+57 and ultra luminous soft X-ray nova J0158-744. The accumulated scan data are processed to generate the third catalogs of X-ray sources with 896 entries.
In this workshop, we hope to review the scientific results triggered by the MAXI observations. The topics include physics of high energy astrophysical sources, their emission, accretion, and outflow processes, in particular, those of black holes, neutron stars, and active stars. We also hope that this workshop will
facilitate new research collaborations for the coming decade between theorists and observers at all wavelengths.
Tatehiro Mihara (RIKEN) and Hitoshi Negoro (Nihon-u)
on behalf of the MAXI 15 year workshop organizers
http://maxi.riken.jp/conf/15year
