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37-Month MAXI/GSC High Galactic-Latitude Source Catalog

Published by High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | Metadata Last Checked: January 17, 2026 | Last Modified: 2026-01-13
This table contains the catalog of high Galactic-latitude (|b| > 10<sup>o</sup>) X-ray sources detected in the first 37 months of data accumulation of the Monitor of All-sky X-ray Image/Gas Slit Camera (MAXI/GSC). To achieve the best sensitivity, the authors developed a background model of the GSC that well reproduced the data based on the detailed on-board calibration. Source detection was performed through image fits with a Poisson likelihood algorithm. The catalog contains 500 objects detected with significances >= 7 in the 4-10 keV band. The limiting sensitivity is ~7.5 x 10<sup>-12</sup> erg cm<sup>-2</sup> s<sup>-1</sup> ( ~0.6 mCrab) in the 4-10 KeV band for 50% of the survey area, which is the highest ever achieved in an all-sky survey mission covering this energy band. In their paper, the authors summarize the statistical properties of the catalog and results from cross-matching with the Swift/BAT 70-month catalog (BAT70), the meta-catalog of X-ray detected clusters of galaxies (MCXC), and the MAXI/GSC 7-month catalog (GSC7). This catalog lists the source name (2MAXI), the position and its error, the detection significances and fluxes in the 4-10 keV and 3-4 keV bands, the hardness ratio, and the basic information on the likely counterpart (the latter available for 296 of the sources). This table was created by the HEASARC in September 2013 based on the electronic version of Table 1 from the reference paper which was obtained from The ApJS web site. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .

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