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most citedDetailed polarization measurements of the prompt emission of five Gamma-Ray Bursts

89 citations · 238 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

astro-ph.IM2026

Design and preliminary performance study of the broad-band spectrometer detector for POLAR-2

Jian-Chao Sun, Jiang He, Shuang-Nan Zhang +46

POLAR-2, the successor of the POLAR experiment aboard China's Tiangong-2 space lab, is set to be deployed on the China Space Station. The POLAR-2 mission aims to conducting high-pr…

astro-ph.HE2026

Prospects of Prompt Gamma-Ray Burst Polarimetry with POLAR-2

Ramandeep Gill, Jiang He, Jonathan Granot +6

The dominant radiation mechanism that powers the prompt -ray emission in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) remains poorly understood. High quality, time- and energy-resolved linear polari…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 1 cited

In-orbit background and sky survey simulation study of POLAR-2/LPD

Zu-Ke Feng, Hong-Bang Liu, Fei Xie +14

The Low-Energy X-ray Polarization Detector (LPD) is one of the payloads in the POLAR-2 experiment, designed as an external payload for the China Space Station (CSS) deployment in e…

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.HE2022★ 1 cited

A Localization Method of High Energy Transients for All-Sky Gamma-Ray Monitor

Yi Zhao, Wangchen Xue, Shaolin Xiong +62

Fast and reliable localization of high-energy transients is crucial for characterizing the burst properties and guiding the follow-up observations. Localization based on the relati…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 11 cited

Gamma-Ray Polarimetry of the Crab Pulsar Observed by POLAR

Han-Cheng Li, Nicolas Produit, Shuang-Nan Zhang +15

The X/ ray polarimetry of the Crab pulsar/nebula is believed to hold crucial information on their emission models. In the past, several missions have shown evidence of polarized…

astro-ph.HE2021

Polarization measurements of the Crab Pulsar with POLAR

Hancheng Li, POLAR Collaboration

POLAR is a dedicated Gamma-Ray Burst polarimeter making use of Compton-scattering which took data from the second Chinese spacelab, the Tiangong-2 from September 2016 to April 2017…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 79 cited

The POLAR Gamma-Ray Burst Polarization Catalog

Merlin Kole, Nicolas De Angelis, Francesco Berlato +18

Despite over 50 years of research, many open questions remain about the origin and nature of GRBs. Polarization measurements of the prompt emission of these extreme phenomena have…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 1 cited

The scaling relation and its difference between cool-core and non-cool-core clusters

Yue Zhu, Yuan-Hao Wang, Hai-Hui Zhao +3

We construct a sample of 70 clusters using data from XMM-Newton and Planck to investigate the scaling relation and the cool-core influences on t…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 89 cited

Detailed polarization measurements of the prompt emission of five Gamma-Ray Bursts

Shuang-Nan Zhang, Merlin Kole, Tian-Wei Bao +37

Gamma-ray bursts are the strongest explosions in the Universe since the Big Bang, believed to be produced either in forming black holes at the end of massive star evolution or merg…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 20 cited

In-Orbit Instrument Performance Study and Calibration for POLAR Polarization Measurements

Zhengheng Li, Merlin Kole, Jianchao Sun +30

POLAR is a compact space-borne detector designed to perform reliable measurements of the polarization for transient sources like Gamma-Ray Bursts in the energy range 50-500keV. The…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 3 cited

A Low-latency Pipeline for GRB Light Curve and Spectrum using Fermi/GBM Near Real-time Data

Yi Zhao, Binbin Zhang, Shaolin Xiong +15

Rapid response and short time latency are very important for Time Domain Astronomy, such as the observations of Gamma-ray Bursts (GRBs) and electromagnetic (EM) counterparts of gra…

physics.ins-det2017★ 13 cited

In-flight energy calibration of the space-borne Compton polarimeter POLAR

Hualin Xiao, Wojtek Hajdas, Bobing Wu +39

POLAR is a compact wide-field space-borne detector for precise measurements of the linear polarisation of hard X-rays emitted by transient sources in the energy range from 50 keV t…