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

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astro-ph.IM2026

Lightweight Soft X-ray Imager (LSXI) with glass-based coded mask

Dali Zhang, Chao Zheng, Lu Wang +23

The coded mask technique has been widely used in X-ray and Gamma-ray imagers, especially in space astronomy. However, the traditional design of coded mask imagers usually has probl…

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★ 1 cited

In-flight calibration of the Lobster Eye Imager for Astronomy

Huaqing Cheng, Hai-Wu Pan, Yuan Liu +12

The Lobster Eye Imager for Astronomy (LEIA), as a pathfinder of the Wide-field X-ray Telescope (WXT) onboard the Einstein Probe (EP) satellite, is the first lobster-eye focusing X-…

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.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-…