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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…