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most citedOverview to the Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (Insight-HXMT) Satellite

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astro-ph.HE2023★ 2 cited

The GECAM Real-Time Burst Alert System

Yue Huang, Dongli Shi, Xiaolu Zhang +13

Gravitational Wave High-energy Electromagnetic Counterpart All-sky Monitor (GECAM), consisting of two micro-satellites, is designed to detect gamma-ray bursts associated with gravi…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 8 cited

Scaling and Universality in the Temporal Occurrence of Repeating FRBs

Yan-Qi Du, Ping Wang, Li-Ming Song +1

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are energetic phenomena that have significant implications for understanding fundamental physics and the universe. Recent observations of FRB 121102, FRB 2…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 10 cited

Broadband X-ray timing and spectral characteristics of the accretion-powered millisecond X-ray pulsar MAXI J1816195

Zhaosheng Li, Lucien Kuiper, Mingyu Ge +11

We studied the broadband X-ray timing and spectral behaviors of the newly confirmed accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar MAXI J1816195 during its 2022 outburst. We used the data f…

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★ 10 cited

An Insight-HXMT view of the mHz quasi-regular modulation phenomenon in the black hole X-ray binary 4U 1630-47

Zi-Xu Yang, Liang Zhang, Yue Huang +97

Here we report the spectral-timing results of the black hole X-ray binary 4U 1630-47 during its 2021 outburst using observations from the Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope. Type-C qu…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 46 cited

Quasi-periodic oscillations of the X-ray burst from the magnetar SGR J1935+2154 and associated with the fast radio burst FRB 200428

Xiaobo Li, Mingyu Ge, Lin Lin +92

The origin(s) and mechanism(s) of fast radio bursts (FRBs), which are short radio pulses from cosmological distances, have remained a major puzzle since their discovery. We report…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 6 cited

The design and implementation of GECAM satellite payload performance monitoring software

Peng Zhang, Xiang Ma, Yue Huang +7

Background The Gravitational wave high-energy Electromagnetic Counterpart All-sky Monitor (GECAM) is primarily designed to spot gamma-ray bursts corresponding to gravitational wave…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 36 cited

Estimate of the Background and Sensitivity of theFollow-up X-ray Telescope onboard Einstein Probe

Juan Zhang, Liqiang Qi, Yanji Yang +15

As a space X-ray imaging mission dedicated to time-domain astrophysics, the Einstein Probe (EP) carries two kinds of scientific payloads, the wide-field X-ray telescope (WXT) and t…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 89 cited

Insight-HXMT observations of jet-like corona in a black hole X-ray binary MAXI J1820+070

Bei You, Yuoli Tuo, Chengzhe Li +123

A black hole X-ray binary produces hard X-ray radiation from its corona and disk when the accreting matter heats up. During an outburst, the disk and corona co-evolves with each ot…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 14 cited

Comparison of simulated backgrounds with in-orbit observations for HE, ME and LE onboard Insight-HXMT

Juan Zhang, Xiaobo Li, Mingyu Ge +10

Insight-HXMT, the first X-ray astronomical satellite in China, aims to reveal new sources in the Galaxy and to study fundamental physics of X-ray binaries from 1\,keV to 250\,keV.…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 18 cited

Timing analysis of the black hole candidate EXO 1846-031 with Insight-HXMT monitoring

He-Xin Liu, Yue Huang, Guang-Cheng Xiao +118

We present the observational results from a detailed timing analysis of the black hole candidate EXO 1846-031 during its outburst in 2019 with the observations of Insight-HXMT, NIC…

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.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★ 9 cited

In-flight calibration of the Insight-Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope

Xiaobo Li, Xufang Li, Ying Tan +19

We present the calibration of the Insight-Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (Insight-HXMT) X-ray satellite, which can be used to perform timing and spectral studies of bright X-ray s…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 329 cited

Overview to the Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (Insight-HXMT) Satellite

ShuangNan Zhang, TiPei Li, FangJun Lu +127

As China's first X-ray astronomical satellite, the Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (HXMT), which was dubbed as Insight-HXMT after the launch on June 15, 2017, is a wide-band (1-250…

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…

physics.ins-det2019

Ground-based calibration and characterization of the HE detectors for Insight-HXMT

XuFang Li, CongZhan Liu, Zhi Chang +29

High energy X-ray telescope (HE) is one of the three instruments of Insight-HXMT(Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope) payload. The HE detector (HED) array is composed of 18 actively Na…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 35 cited

Insight-HXMT observations of Swift J0243.6+6124 during its 2017-2018 outburst

Yue Zhang, Mingyu Ge, Liming Song +107

The recently discovered neutron star transient Swift J0243.6+6124 has been monitored by {\it the Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope} ({\it Insight-\rm HXMT). Based on the obtained dat…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 13 cited

Insight-HXMT observations of the Crab pulsar

You-Li Tuo, Ming-Yu Ge, Li-Ming Song +3

We report on X-ray emission properties of the Crab pulsar(PSR B0531+21) using observations by Insight-HXMT during its first year after launch. We obtained high signal-to-noise prof…

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.IM2019

Observation data pre-processing and scientific data products generation of POLAR

Zheng-Heng Li, Jian-Chao Sun, Li-Ming Song +8

POLAR is a compact space-borne detector initially designed to measure the polarization of hard X-rays emitted from Gamma-Ray Bursts in the energy range 50-500keV. This instrument w…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 329 cited

The enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry mission - eXTP

ShuangNan Zhang, Andrea Santangelo, Marco Feroci +146

In this paper we present the enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry mission - eXTP. eXTP is a space science mission designed to study fundamental physics under extreme conditions of…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 19 cited

On the possibility of disk-fed formation in supergiant high-mass X-ray binaries

Ali Taani, Shigeyuki Karino, Liming Song +3

We have considered the existence of neutron star magnetic field given by the cyclotron lines. We collected the data of 9 sources of high-mass X-ray binaries with supergiant compani…