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

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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.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.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.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.IM2023★ 7 cited

Pulsar and Magnetar Navigation with Fermi/GBM and GECAM

Xi-Hong Luo, Shuo Xiao, Shi-Jie Zheng +29

The determination of the absolute and relative position of a spacecraft is critical for its operation, observations, data analysis, scientific studies, as well as deep space explor…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 4 cited

Cross calibration of gamma-ray detectors (GRD) of GECAM-C

Yan-Qiu Zhang, Shao-Lin Xiong, Rui Qiao +42

The gamma-ray detectors (GRDs) of GECAM-C onborad SATech-01 satellite is designed to monitor gamma-ray transients all over the sky from 6 keV to 6 MeV. The energy response matrix i…

astro-ph.IM2023

Five-year in-orbit background of Insight-HXMT

Jin-Yuan Liao, Shu Zhang, Juan Zhang +24

Purpose: We present the five-year in-orbit background evolution of Insight-HXMT since the launch, as well as the effects of the background model in data analysis. Methods: The back…

astro-ph.IM2023

In-orbit performance of HE onboard Insight-HXMT in the first 5 years

Xu-Fang Li, Cong-Zhan Liu, Yi-Fei Zhang +10

Purpose: The High-Energy X-ray telescope (HE), one of the three main payloads of the \textit{Insight}-HXMT mission, is composed of eighteen NaI(Tl)/CsI(Na) phoswich detectors, wher…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 20 cited

GECAM Localization of High Energy Transients and the Systematic Error

Yi Zhao, Wang-Chen Xue, Shao-Lin Xiong +63

Gravitational wave high-energy Electromagnetic Counterpart All-sky Monitor (GECAM) is a pair of microsatellites (i.e. GECAM-A and GECAM-B) dedicated to monitoring gamma-ray transie…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 8 cited

Neutral Atmospheric Density Measurement Using Insight-HXMT Data by Earth Occultation Technique

Wang-Chen Xue, Xiao-Bo Li, Shao-Lin Xiong +12

The Earth occultation technique has broad applications in both astronomy and atmospheric density measurements. We construct the background model during the occultation of the Crab…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 6 cited

The In-Flight Realtime Trigger and Localization Software of GECAM

Xiao-Yun Zhao, Shao-Lin Xiong, Xiang-Yang Wen +86

Realtime trigger and localization of bursts are the key functions of GECAM, which is an all-sky gamma-ray monitor launched in Dec 10, 2020. We developed a multifunctional trigger a…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 4 cited

The influence of the Insight-HXMT/LE time response on timing analysis

Deng-Ke Zhou, Shi-Jie Zheng, Li-Ming Song +28

LE is the low energy telescope of Insight-HXMT. It uses swept charge devices (SCDs) to detect soft X-ray photons. The time response of LE is caused by the structure of SCDs. With t…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 3 cited

Background Model for the High-Energy Telescope of Insight-HXMT

Jin-Yuan Liao, Shu Zhang, Xue-Feng Lu +20

Accurate background estimation is essential for spectral and temporal analysis in astrophysics. In this work, we construct the in-orbit background model for the High-Energy Telesco…

astro-ph.IM2020

Calibration of the Instrumental Response of Insight-HXMT/HE CsI Detectors for Gamma-Ray Monitoring

Qi Luo, Jin-Yuan Liao, Xu-Fang Li +17

The CsI detectors of the High Energy X-ray Telescope of the Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (HXMT/CsI) can be used for gamma-ray all sky monitoring and searching for the electromag…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 4 cited

Background Model for the Low-Energy Telescope of Insight-HXMT

Jin-Yuan Liao, Shu Zhang, Yong Chen +16

With more than 150 blank sky observations at high Galactic latitude, we make a systematic study to the background of the Low Energy Telescope (LE) of the Hard X-ray Modulation Tele…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 5 cited

The Background Model of the Medium Energy X-ray telescope of Insight-HXMT

Cheng-Cheng Guo, Jin-Yuan Liao, Shu Zhang +26

The Medium Energy X-ray Telescope (ME) is one of the main payloads of the Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (dubbed as Insight-HXMT). The background of Insight-HXMT/ME is mainly caus…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 16 cited

In-orbit Calibration to the Point-Spread Function of Insight-HXMT

Yi Nang, Jin-Yuan Liao, Na Sai +9

We make the in-orbit calibration to the point-spread functions (PSFs) of the collimators of the Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope with the scanning observation of the Crab. We constr…

astro-ph.IM2019

Studies on the time response distribution of Insigh}-HXMT/LE

Xiao-Fan Zhao, Yu-Xuan Zhu, Da-Wei Han +105

The Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (HXMT) named Insight is China's first X-ray astronomical satellite. The Low Energy X-ray Telescope (LE) is one of its main payloads onboard. The…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 172 cited

The Medium Energy (ME) X-ray telescope onboard the Insight-HXMT astronomy satellite

Xuelei Cao, Weichun Jiang, Bin Meng +34

The Medium Energy X-ray telescope (ME) is one of the three main telescopes on board the Insight Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (Insight-HXMT) astronomy satellite. ME contains 1728…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 14 cited

In-orbit calibration status of the Insight-HXMT

Xiaobo Li, Liming Song, Xufang Li +2

As China's first X-ray astronomical satellite, Insight-HXMT (Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope) successfully launched on Jun 15, 2017. It performs timing and spectral studies of brig…