Observations of gamma-ray bursts with MAXI on the international space station

MAXI is an X-ray all-sky monitor mission which will be deployed on the Japanese Experiment Module of the International Space Station in 2004. It is designed to monitor X-ray sources by scanning the entire sky every 90 minutes, and can detect X-ray sources of 3 mCrab in one day. Although its instantaneous field of view is limited to narrow fan beams, one can expect ∼5 GRBs to occur in the field of view and ∼25 afterglows to be detected per year.