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most citedScience objectives of the Einstein Probe mission

89 citations · 150 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

astro-ph.HE2026

LHAASO-WCDA observed a 5 days TeV-delayed flaring event in blazar 1ES 1959+650

Zhen Cao, F. Aharonian, Y. X. Bai +339

We report a day-scale hard lag between GeV and TeV -ray emission from the HBL 1ES~1959+650 in early 2024. Since the LHAASO-WCDA real-time monitoring system began operation in la…

astro-ph.HE2026

Anisotropic Particle Transport from a Pulsar Wind Nebula Revealed by Einstein Probe and LHAASO

Zhen Cao, F. Aharonian, Y. X. Bai +339

Pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) are major cosmic ray accelerators, yet the mechanisms transporting high-energy particles into the interstellar medium remain elusive. Building on the LHA…

astro-ph.IM2026

Calibration database design for the wide-field X-ray telescope on board the Einstein Probe

Huaqing Cheng, Hai-Wu Pan, Yuan Liu +6

The wide-field X-ray telescope (WXT) is the primary payload of the Einstein Probe (EP) mission. Utilizing innovative lobster-eye micro-pore optics (MPO), it achieves an unprecedent…

astro-ph.IM2026

Onboard catalog of known X-ray sources for EP-WXT

He-Yang Liu, Haiwu Pan, Yuan Liu +14

The Einstein Probe (EP) is dedicated to explore the dynamic X-ray universe and capture transient events in real time with its Wide-field X-ray Telescope (WXT). However, WXT's unpre…

astro-ph.IM2026

In-flight calibration of the Wide-field X-ray Telescope on board the Einstein Probe

Huaqing Cheng, Hai-Wu Pan, Yuan Liu +14

By utilizing novel lobster-eye optics, the Wide-field X-ray Telescope (WXT) onboard the Einstein Probe (EP) satellite achieves an unprecedented combination of a large instantaneous…

astro-ph.IM2025

Ground Calibration Result of the Wide-field X-ray Telescope (WXT) onboard the Einstein Probe

Huaqing Cheng, Chen Zhang, Zhixing Ling +24

We report on results of the on-ground X-ray calibration of the Wide-field X-ray Telescope (WXT) built from novel lobster-eye micro-pore optics, onboard the Einstein Probe (EP) sate…

astro-ph.HE2025

EP240801a/XRF 240801B: An X-ray Flash Detected by the Einstein Probe and Implications of its Multiband Afterglow

Shuai-Qing Jiang, Dong Xu, Agnes P. C. van Hoof +89

We present multiband observations and analysis of EP240801a, a low-energy, extremely soft gamma-ray burst (GRB) discovered on August 1, 2024 by the Einstein Probe (EP) satellite, w…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 89 cited

Science objectives of the Einstein Probe mission

Weimin Yuan, Lixin Dai, Hua Feng +93

The Einstein Probe (EP) is an interdisciplinary mission of time-domain and X-ray astronomy. Equipped with a wide-field lobster-eye X-ray focusing imager, EP will discover cosmic X-…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 21 cited

Einstein Probe discovery of EP240408a: a peculiar X-ray transient with an intermediate timescale

Wenda Zhang, Weimin Yuan, Zhixing Ling +136

We report the discovery of a peculiar X-ray transient, EP240408a, by Einstein Probe (EP) and follow-up studies made with EP, Swift, NICER, GROND, ATCA and other ground-based multi-…

astro-ph.HE2024

Study of Wide-Field-of-View X-ray Observations of the Virgo Cluster Using the Lobster Eye Imager for Astronomy

Wen-Cheng Feng, Shu-Mei Jia, Hai-Hui Zhao +9

The Lobster Eye Imager for Astronomy (LEIA) is the pathfinder of the wide-field X-ray telescope used in the Einstein Probe mission. In this study, we present an image of the Virgo…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 34 cited

Triggering the Untriggered: The First Einstein Probe-Detected Gamma-Ray Burst 240219A and Its Implications

Yi-Han Iris Yin, Bin-Bin Zhang, Jun Yang +49

The Einstein Probe (EP) achieved its first detection and localization of a bright X-ray flare, EP240219a, on 2024 February 19, during its commissioning phase. Subsequent targeted s…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 6 cited

The fast X-ray transient EP240315a: a z ~ 5 gamma-ray burst in a Lyman continuum leaking galaxy

Andrew J. Levan, Peter G. Jonker, Andrea Saccardi +73

The nature of the minute-to-hour long Fast X-ray Transients (FXTs) localised by telescopes such as Chandra, Swift, and XMM-Newton remains mysterious, with numerous models suggested…

astro-ph.IM2023

Ground Calibration Result of the Lobster Eye Imager for Astronomy

Huaqing Cheng, Zhixing Ling, Chen Zhang +22

We report on results of the on-ground X-ray calibration of the Lobster Eye Imager for Astronomy (LEIA), an experimental space wide-field (18.6*18.6 square degrees) X-ray telescope…