• Kawamuro, T.
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• Ueda, Y.
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• Shidatsu, M.
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• Hori, T.
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• Morii, M.
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• Nakahira, S.
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• Isobe, N.
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• Kawai, N.
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• Mihara, T.
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• Matsuoka, M.
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• Morita, T.
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• Nakajima, M.
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• Negoro, H.
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• Oda, S.
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• Sakamoto, T.
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• Serino, M.
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• Sugizaki, M.
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• Tanimoto, A.
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• Tomida, H.
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• Tsuboi, Y.
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• Tsunemi, H.
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• Ueno, S.
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• Yamaoka, K.
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• Yamada, S.
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• Yoshida, A.
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• Iwakiri, W.
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• Kawakubo, Y.
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• Sugawara, Y.
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• Sugita, S.
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• Tachibana, Y.
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• Yoshii, T.

Abstract

We present the third MAXI/GSC catalog in the high Galactic latitude sky (| b| > 10^\circ ) based on the 7-year data from 2009 August 13 to 2016 July 31, complementary to that in the low Galactic latitude sky (| b| < 10^\circ ) (Hori et al. 2018). We compile 682 sources detected at significances of s _{D,4-10 keV} ≥ 6.5 in the 4-10 keV band. A two-dimensional image fit based on the Poisson likelihood algorithm (C-statistics) is adopted for the detections and constraints on their fluxes and positions. The 4-10 keV sensitivity reaches ≈0.48 mCrab, or ≈5.9 ×ばつ 10^-12 erg cm^-2 s^-1, over half of the survey area. Compared with the 37-month Hiroi et al. (2013) catalog, which adopted a threshold of s _{D,4-10 keV} ≥ 7, the source number increases by a factor of ∼1.4. The fluxes in the 3-4 keV and 10-20 keV bands are further estimated, and hardness ratios (HRs) are calculated using the 3-4 keV, 4-10 keV, 3-10 keV, and 10-20 keV band fluxes. We also make the 4-10 keV light curves in 1-year bins for all the sources and characterize their variabilities with an index based on a likelihood function and the excess variance. Possible counterparts are found from five major X-ray survey catalogs by Swift, Uhuru, RXTE, XMM-Newton, and ROSAT, as well as an X-ray galaxy cluster catalog (MCXC). Our catalog provides the fluxes, positions, detection significances, HRs, 1-year bin light curves, variability indices, and counterpart candidates.