Kazuhisa Miyaguchi

Solid-State Slit Camera (SSC) Aboard MAXI

Solid-state Slit Camera (SSC) is an X-ray camera onboard the MAXI mission of the International Space Station. Two sets of SSC sensors view X-ray sky using charge-coupled devices (CCDs) in 0.5--12\,keV band. The total area for the X-ray detection is about 200\,cm

In-Orbit Performance of the MAXI/SSC onboard the ISS

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Recent results of the fully-depleted back-illuminated CCD developed by Hamamatsu

which is the largest among the missions of X-ray astronomy. The energy resolution at the CCD temperature of

CONTINUUM X-RAY SOURCE AS A CALIBRATION SYSTEM FOR CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES

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Development of thick back-illuminated CCD to improve quantum efficiency in optical longer wavelength using high-resistivity n-type silicon

70 \degc is 145\,eV in full width at the half maximum (FWHM) at 5.9\,keV, and the field of view is 1\deg .5 (FWHM)

X-Ray Responsivities of Direct-Scintillator-Deposited Charge-Coupled Device

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Evaluation of the fully-depleted back-illuminated CCD for Subaru Suprime-Cam

90\deg for each sensor. The SSC could make a whole-sky image with the energy resolution good enough to resolve line emissions, and monitor the whole-sky at the energy band of

Proton Irradiation Experiment for X-ray Charge-Coupled Devices of the Monitor of All-Sky X-ray Image Mission Onboard the International Space Station: II. Degradation of Dark Current and Identification of Electron Trap Level

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Application of the Mesh Experiment for the Back-Illuminated Charge-Coupled Device: I. Experiment and the Charge Cloud Shape

2\,keV for the first time in these decades.

Development of p-Channel Charge-Coupled Device for NeXT, the Next Japanese X-ray Astronomical Satellite Mission

We report here the in-orbit performance of the CCD camera (MAXI/SSC) onboard the International Space Station (ISS). It was commissioned in 2009 August. This is the first all-sky survey mission employing X-ray CCDs. It consists of 32 CCDs, each of which is 1 inch square. It is a slit camera with a field of view of 1: i 5 � 90 i ,a nd scans the sky as the rotation of the ISS. The CCD on the SSC is cooled down to the working temperature around � 60 i C by the combination of a peltier cooler, a loop heat pipe and a radiator. The standard observation mode of the CCD is in a parallel sum mode (64-binning). The CCD functions properly, although it suffers an edge glow when the Sun is near the field of view (FOV), which reduces the observation efficiency of the SSC down to about 30%. The performance of the CCD is continuously monitored both by the Mn-K X-rays and by the Cu-K X-rays. There are many sources detected, not only point sources, but extended sources. Due to the lack of an effective observation time, we need more observation time to obtain an extended emission analysis extraction process.