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20192026
most citedRe-detection and a Possible Time Variation of Soft X-ray Polarisation from the Crab

85 citations · 210 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

physics.ins-det2026

Development and Performance Study of a Capillary Liquid Scintillator Neutron Detector

Guang Luo, Jian Yu, Dikai Li +9

Capillary liquid scintillator detectors are promising for high-resolution neutron imaging, yet experimental data on their light spread mechanism and spatial performance remain limi…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 9 cited

X-ray Polarimetry of the accreting pulsar 1A~0535+262 in the supercritical state with PolarLight

Xiangyun Long, Hua Feng, Hong Li +25

The X-ray pulsar 1A 0535+262 exhibited a giant outburst in 2020, offering us a unique opportunity for X-ray polarimetry of an accreting pulsar in the supercritical state. Measureme…

astro-ph.HE2021

A significant detection of X-ray Polarization in Sco X-1 with PolarLight and constraints on the corona geometry

Xiangyun Long, Hua Feng, Hong Li +23

We report the detection of X-ray polarization in the neutron star low mass X-ray binary Scorpius (Sco) X-1 with PolarLight. The result is energy dependent, with a non-detection in…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 22 cited

X-ray polarimetry of the Crab nebula with PolarLight: polarization recovery after the glitch and a secular position angle variation

Xiangyun Long, Hua Feng, Hong Li +24

We report follow-up observations of the Crab nebula with the PolarLight X-ray polarimeter, which revealed a possible variation in polarization associated with a pulsar glitch in 20…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 8 cited

Discrimination of background events in the PolarLight X-ray polarimeter

Jiahuan Zhu, Hong Li, Hua Feng +22

PolarLight is a space-borne X-ray polarimeter that measures the X-ray polarization via electron tracking in an ionization chamber. It is a collimated instrument and thus suffers fr…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 8 cited

Modeling the in-orbit background of PolarLight

Jiahui Huang, Hua Feng, Hong Li +23

PolarLight is a gas pixel X-ray polarimeter mounted on a CubeSat, which was launched into a Sun-synchronous orbit in October 2018. We build a mass model of the whole CubeSat with t…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 85 cited

Re-detection and a Possible Time Variation of Soft X-ray Polarisation from the Crab

Hua Feng, Hong Li, Xiangyun Long +24

The Crab nebula is so far the only celestial object with a statistically significant detection in soft x-ray polarimetry, a window that has not been explored in astronomy since the…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 13 cited

In-orbit Operation and Performance of the CubeSat Soft X-ray Polarimeter PolarLight

Hong Li, Xiangyun Long, Hua Feng +21

PolarLight is a compact soft X-ray polarimeter onboard a CubeSat, which was launched into a low-Earth orbit on October 29, 2018. In March 2019, PolarLight started full operation, a…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 65 cited

PolarLight: a CubeSat X-ray Polarimeter based on the Gas Pixel Detector

Hua Feng, Weichun Jiang, Massimo Minuti +20

The gas pixel detector (GPD) is designed and developed for high-sensitivity astronomical X-ray polarimetry, which is a new window about to open in a few years. Due to the small mas…