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20192026
most citedThe Medium Energy (ME) X-ray telescope onboard the Insight-HXMT astronomy satellite

172 citations · 782 across the 55 of their papers we have counts for

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56 papers

astro-ph.IM2026

ELISA: A Bayesian X/-ray Spectral Analysis Toolkit

Wang-Chen Xue, Sheng-Lun Xie, Chao Zheng +11

Forward-folded X/-ray spectral fitting increasingly benefits from Bayesian workflows to better capture counting statistics, background uncertainties, and complex parameter degen…

astro-ph.HE2026★ 1 cited

Detection and luminosity-dependent evolution of the high-energy hump in the Be/X-ray pulsar 1A 1118-61

Alexander Salganik, Sergey S. Tsygankov, Sergey V. Molkov +12

Context. Accreting X-ray pulsars exhibit strong luminosity-dependent changes in their broad-band spectra. At high luminosities, their spectra are usually described by a power-law c…

astro-ph.HE2026

GRB 250706B/C: Insight-HXMT Discovery of a High-Luminosity Burst as a Candidate for Fallback-Regulated Accretion in the Prompt Emission

Chen-Wei Wang, R. Moradi, Shao-Lin Xiong +15

Fallback accretion in collapsar models is often associated with underluminous gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), leading to the widespread view that fallback-fed engines may be intrinsically…

astro-ph.HE2026★ 1 cited

Joint Observation of SGR J1935+2154 with \textit{Insight}-HXMT and KM40m during the active episode of October 2022

Wang-Chen Xue, Wen-Jun Tan, Yu-Xiang Huang +32

SGR J1935+2154 is the unique magnetar so far from which fast radio bursts have been detected. In October 2022, it resumed its burst activity, and we implemented a dedicated target-…

astro-ph.HE2026

GECAM discovery of a peculiar magnetar X-ray burst (MXB 221120) from SGR J1935+2154 associated with a fast radio burst

Wen-Jun Tan, Yue Wang, Chen-Wei Wang +50

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are enigmatic cosmic transients of millisecond duration observed in the radio band. The identification of FRB-associated magnetar X-ray bursts (MXBs) from…

astro-ph.HE2026

Comprehensive Measurement of Spectral Evolution in a GRB Flare: High Time-Resolution Insights into the "Double-Tracking" Phenomenon

Zheng-Hang Yu, Wen-Jun Tan, Chen-Wei Wang +41

The spectral evolution characteristics of the prompt emission in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have been extensively studied, but detailed investigations of spectral evolution in a GRB f…

astro-ph.HE2026

GECAM discovery of the second FRB-associated Magnetar X-ray Burst from SGR J1935+2154

Chen-Wei Wang, Shao-Lin Xiong, Yue Wang +47

Fast radio burst (FRB) is mysterious phenomenon with millisecond-duration radio pulses observed mostly from cosmological distance. The association between FRB 200428 and a magnetar…

astro-ph.HE2026

Systematic Study of the Simultaneous Events Detected by GECAM

Yang-Zhao Ren, Feng-Rong Zhu, Shao-Lin Xiong +45

GECAM is a constellation of all-sky monitors in hard X-ray and gamma-ray band primarily aimed at high energy transients such as gamma-ray bursts, soft gamma-ray repeaters, solar fl…

astro-ph.HE2026

Secular Evolution of PSR J2021+4026: Long-Term γ-Ray Flux and Spin-Down Variability Beyond State Transitions

Xue-Zhi Liu, Ming-Yu Ge, Xiao-Ping Zheng +7

PSR J2021+4026 is a remarkable -ray pulsar exhibiting repeated transitions between high -ray flux (HGF) and low -ray flux (LGF) states. With 17-yr Fermi-LAT monitoring, we…

astro-ph.HE2026★ 4 cited

Brightest GRB flare observed in GRB 221009A: bridge the last gap between flare and prompt emission in GRB

Zheng-Hang Yu, Chen-Wei Wang, Shao-Lin Xiong +46

Flares are usually observed during the afterglow phase of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) in soft X-ray, optical and radio bands, but rarely in gamma-ray band. Despite the extraordinary br…

astro-ph.HE2026

Minutes-long soft X-ray prompt emission from a compact object merger

An Li, Chen-Wei Wang, Niccolò Passaleva +75

Compact object mergers are multi-messenger sources and known progenitors of some gamma-ray bursts, bright flashes of high-energy radiation powered by a central engine, either an ac…

astro-ph.IM2025

LUNCH: A Lightweight Unified Deep-Learning Framework for General Transients Classification in High-Energy Time-Domain Astronomy

Peng Zhang, Chen-Wei Wang, Zheng-Hang Yu +19

The increasing data volume of high-energy space monitors necessitates real-time, automated transient classification for multi-messenger follow-up. Conventional methods rely on empi…

astro-ph.HE2025

Advancing Identification method of Gamma-Ray Bursts with Data and Feature Enhancement

Peng Zhang, Bing Li, Ren-Zhou Gui +12

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are challenging to identify due to their transient nature, complex temporal profiles, and limited observational datasets. We address this with a one-dimensi…

astro-ph.IM2025

BREAKFAST: A Framework for general joint BA duty and follow-up guidance of multiple -ray monitors

Chen-Wei Wang, Peng Zhang, Shao-Lin Xiong +30

With the growing number of gamma-ray monitors in operation, several research teams have adopted a strategy of joint operation and scientific duty to improve efficiency. A successfu…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 2 cited

Eclipsed X-ray Bursts from Magnetar SGR J1935+2154 and the Fireball Measurements

Sheng-Lun Xie, Aming Chen, Yun-Wei Yu +17

In theory, burst activity of the magnetar can lead to the formation of fireballs trapped by the magnetic field and corotating with the star. However, the smoking-gun observational…

astro-ph.HE2025

On the Ultra-Long Gamma-Ray Transient GRB 250702B/EP250702

Jin-Peng Zhang, Chen-Wei Wang, Zheng-Hang Yu +20

GRB 250702B/EP250702a is an interesting long-duration gamma-ray transient whose nature is in debate. To obtain a full picture in gamma-ray band, we implement a comprehensive target…

astro-ph.HE2025

Multi-Instrument Search for Gamma-Ray Counterpart of X-ray Transients detected by EP/WXT

Yan-Qiu Zhang, Wang-Chen Xue, Jin-Peng Zhang +25

As a soft X-ray imager with unprecedentedly large field of view, EP/WXT has detected many (fast) X-ray transients, whose nature is very intriguing. Whether there is gamma-ray count…

astro-ph.HE2025

Insight-HXMT observations of the extremely bright GRB 221009A

Wen-Long Zhang, Wang-Chen Xue, Cheng-Kui Li +22

The Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (\insight) detected GRB 221009A, the brightest gamma-ray burst observed to date, with all its three telescopes, i.e. High Energy telescope (HE,…

astro-ph.HE2025

Evolution of the Three Spectral Components in the Prompt Emission of GRB 240825A

Chen-Wei Wang, Wen-Jun Tan, Shao-Lin Xiong +17

The prompt emission of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) could be composed of different spectral components, such as a dominant non-thermal Band component in the keV-MeV range, a subdominant…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 14 cited

The GECAM Ground Search System for Gamma-ray Transients

Ce Cai, Yan-Qiu Zhang, Shao-Lin Xiong +35

In the era of time-domain, multi-messenger astronomy, the detection of transient events on the high-energy electromagnetic sky has become more important than ever. The Gravitationa…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 3 cited

Insight-HXMT on-orbit thermal control status and thermal deformation impact analysis

Aimei Zhang, Yifan Zhang, Jinyuan Liao +23

Purpose: The Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope is China's first X-ray astronomy satellite launched on June 15th, 2017, dubbed Insight-HXMT. Active and passive thermal control measure…

astro-ph.HE2023

Observation of GRB 221009A early afterglow in X/-ray energy band

Chao Zheng, Yan-Qiu Zhang, Shao-Lin Xiong +45

The early afterglow of a Gamma-ray burst (GRB) can provide critical information on the jet and progenitor of the GRB. The extreme brightness of GRB 221009A allows us to probe its e…

astro-ph.HE2023

Individual and Averaged Power Density Spectra of X-ray bursts from SGR J1935+2154: Quasiperiodic Oscillation Search and Slopes

Shuo Xiao, Xiao-Bo Li, Wang-Chen Xue +29

The study of quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) and power density spectra (PDS) continuum properties can help shed light on the still illusive emission physics of magnetars and as…

astro-ph.HE2023

The Minimum Variation Timescales of X-ray bursts from SGR J1935+2154

Shuo Xiao, Jiao-Jiao Yang, Xi-Hong Luo +34

The minimum variation timescale (MVT) of soft gamma-ray repeaters can be an important probe to estimate the emission region in pulsar-like models, as well as the Lorentz factor and…