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most citedThe Mass of the Black Hole in Cygnus X-1

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astro-ph.HE2026

Exploring the spin dependence on mass inclination and distance for the newly discovered black hole X-ray binary Swift J151857.0-572147

Yujia Song, James F. Steiner, Tong Zhao +7

The black hole X-ray binary (BHXRB) Swift J151857.0-572147 was discovered during its first outburst in March 2024. We review the archive of NICER observations from this outburst, f…

astro-ph.HE2025

Probing the Strong Gravity Region of Black Holes with eXTP

Qingcui Bu, Cosimo Bambi, Lijun Gou +42

We present the novel capabilities of the enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry (eXTP) mission to study the strong gravity region around stellar-mass black holes in X-ray binary sys…

astro-ph.HE2025

The enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry mission -- eXTP for launch in 2030

Shuang-Nan Zhang, Andrea Santangelo, Yupeng Xu +155

In this paper we present the current status of the enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry mission, which has been fully approved for launch in 2030. eXTP is a space science mission…

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.CO2024

Detection, sky localization and early warning for binary neutron star mergers by detectors located in China of different configurations in third generation detector network

Yufeng Li, Ik Siong Heng, Man Leong Chan +2

This work shows the results of an evaluation of the impact that a detector located in China, with a noise budget comparable to that of a proposed high-frequency detector with a 20…

astro-ph.HE2024

Measuring the Spin of Black Hole Transient 4U 1543-47 Using Insight-HXMT

Jun Yang, Nan Jia, Erlin Qiao +2

We provided a comprehensive study of the properties of the black hole in the low-mass X-ray binary system 4U 1543-47, specifically focusing on the 2021 outburst (MJD 59380-59470).…