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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.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).…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 6 cited

The spin measurement of MAXI J1348-630 using the Insight-HXMT data

Yujia Song, Nan Jia, Jun Yang +3

We report the results of fitting Insight-HXMT data to the black hole X-ray binary MAXI J1348-430, which was discovered on January 26th, 2019, with the Gas Slit Camera (GSC) on-boar…