MOXE: An X-Ray All-Sky Monitor For The Soviet Spectrum-X-Gamma Mission

W. Priedhorsky; E. E. Fenimore; C. E. Moss; R. L. Kelley; S. S. Holt

doi:10.1117/12.962576

27 November 1989 MOXE: An X-Ray All-Sky Monitor For The Soviet Spectrum-X-Gamma Mission

W. Priedhorsky, E. E. Fenimore, C. E. Moss, R. L. Kelley, S. S. Holt

Proceedings Volume 1159, EUV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Instrumentation for Astronomy and Atomic Physics; (1989) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.962576
Event: 33rd Annual Technical Symposium, 1989, San Diego, United States

Abstract

We are developing a Monitoring X-Ray Experiment (MOXE) for the Soviet Spectrum-X-Gamma Mission. MOXE is an X-ray all-sky monitor based on array of pinhole cameras, to be provided via a collaboration between Goddard Space Flight Center and Los Alamos National Laboratory. Our objectives are 1) to alert other observers on Spectrum-X-Gamma and other platforms of interesting transient activity, and 2) to synoptically monitor the X-ray sky and study long-term changes in X-ray binaries. MOXE will be sensitive to sources as faint as 2 milliCrab (56) in 1 day, and cover the 2-20 keV band.

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W. Priedhorsky, E. E. Fenimore, C. E. Moss, R. L. Kelley, and S. S. Holt "MOXE: An X-Ray All-Sky Monitor For The Soviet Spectrum-X-Gamma Mission", Proc. SPIE 1159, EUV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Instrumentation for Astronomy and Atomic Physics, (27 November 1989); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.962576

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