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Long-term stability of scientific X-ray CMOS detectors
Mingjun Liu, Qinyu Wu, Zhixing Ling +3
In recent years, complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) sensors have been demonstrated to have significant potential in X-ray astronomy, where long-term reliability is cruc…
Triggering the Untriggered: The First Einstein Probe-Detected Gamma-Ray Burst 240219A and Its Implications
Yi-Han Iris Yin, Bin-Bin Zhang, Jun Yang +49
The Einstein Probe (EP) achieved its first detection and localization of a bright X-ray flare, EP240219a, on 2024 February 19, during its commissioning phase. Subsequent targeted s…
Soft X-ray prompt emission from a high-redshift gamma-ray burst EP240315a
Y. Liu, H. Sun, D. Xu +191
Long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are believed to originate from core collapse of massive stars. High-redshift GRBs can probe the star formation and reionization history of the early un…
The fast X-ray transient EP240315a: a z ~ 5 gamma-ray burst in a Lyman continuum leaking galaxy
Andrew J. Levan, Peter G. Jonker, Andrea Saccardi +73
The nature of the minute-to-hour long Fast X-ray Transients (FXTs) localised by telescopes such as Chandra, Swift, and XMM-Newton remains mysterious, with numerous models suggested…
Radiation Effects on Scientific CMOS Detectors for X-ray Astronomy: II. Total Ionizing Dose Irradiation
Mengxi Chen, Zhixing Ling, Mingjun Liu +6
Complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) detectors are a competitive choice for current and upcoming astronomical missions. To understand the performance variations of CMOS d…
Ground Calibration Result of the Lobster Eye Imager for Astronomy
Huaqing Cheng, Zhixing Ling, Chen Zhang +22
We report on results of the on-ground X-ray calibration of the Lobster Eye Imager for Astronomy (LEIA), an experimental space wide-field (18.6*18.6 square degrees) X-ray telescope…
Radiation effects on scientific CMOS sensors for X-ray astronomy: I. proton irradiation
Mingjun Liu, Zhixing Ling, Qinyu Wu +5
Complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) sensors are a competitive choice for future X-ray astronomy missions. Typically, CMOS sensors on space astronomical telescopes are ex…
An Aluminum-coated sCMOS sensor for X-Ray Astronomy
Qinyu Wu, Zhixing Ling, Chen Zhang +2
In recent years, tremendous progress has been made on scientific Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (sCMOS) sensors, making them a promising device for future space X-ray miss…
Magnetar emergence in a peculiar gamma-ray burst from a compact star merger
H. Sun, C. -W. Wang, J. Yang +42
The central engine that powers gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), the most powerful explosions in the universe, is still not identified. Besides hyper-accreting black holes, rapidly spinning…
The Lobster Eye Imager for Astronomy Onboard the SATech-01 Satellite
Z. X. Ling, X. J. Sun, C. Zhang +122
The Lobster Eye Imager for Astronomy (LEIA), a pathfinder of the Wide-field X-ray Telescope of the Einstein Probe (EP) mission, was successfully launched onboard the SATech-01 sate…
Investigating the image lag of a scientific CMOS sensor in X-ray detection
Qinyu Wu, Zhixing Ling, Chen Zhang +4
In recent years, scientific CMOS (sCMOS) sensors have been vigorously developed and have outperformed CCDs in several aspects: higher readout frame rate, higher radiation tolerance…
Improving the X-ray energy resolution of a scientific CMOS detector by pixel-level gain correction
Qinyu Wu, Zhixing Ling, Xinyang Wang +3
Scientific Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (sCMOS) sensors are finding increasingly more applications in astronomical observations, thanks to their advantages over charge-c…
X-ray Performance of a Small Pixel Size sCMOS Sensor and the Effect of Depletion Depth
Yu Hsiao, Zhixing Ling, Chen Zhang +5
In recent years, scientific Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (sCMOS) devices have been increasingly applied in X-ray detection, thanks to their attributes such as high frame…
Design and test results of different aluminum coating layers on the sCMOS sensors for soft X-ray detection
W. X. Wang, Z. X. Ling, C. Zhang +2
In recent years, tremendous progress has been made on complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) sensors for applications as X-ray detectors. To shield the visible light in X-r…
X-ray performance of a customized large-format scientifc CMOS detector
Qinyu Wu, Zhenqing Jia, Wenxin Wang +4
In recent years, the performance of Scientifc Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (sCMOS) sensors has been improved signifcantly. Compared with CCD sensors, sCMOS sensors have…
Design and test results of scientific X-ray CMOS cameras
Wenxin Wang, Zhixing Ling, Chen Zhang +5
In recent years, scientific CMOS (sCMOS) sensors have found increasing applications to X-ray detection, including X-ray astronomical observations. In order to examine the performan…
The Einstein Probe Mission
Weimin Yuan, Chen Zhang, Yong Chen +1
The Einstein Probe (EP) is a mission designed to monitor the sky in the soft X-ray band. It will perform systematic surveys and characterisation of high-energy transients and monit…
Geant4 Simulations Of A Wide-Angle X-Ray Focusing Telescope
Donghua Zhao, Chen Zhang, Weimin Yuan +3
The rapid development of X-ray astronomy has been made possible by widely deploying X-ray focusing telescopes on board many X-ray satellites. Geant4 is a very powerful toolkit for…
X-ray Scattered Halo around IGR J17544-2619
Junjie Mao, Zhixing Ling, Shuang-Nan Zhang
X-ray photons coming from an X-ray point source not only arrive at the detector directly, but also can be strongly forward-scattered by the interstellar dust along the line of sigh…
Determining the Distance of Cyg X-3 with its X-ray Dust Scattering Halo
Zhixing Ling, Shuang Nan Zhang, Shichao Tang
Using a cross-correlation method, we study the X-ray halo of Cyg X-3. Two components of dust distributions are needed to explain the time lags derived by the cross-correlation meth…
A Study of the X-Ray Dust Scattering Halo of Cyg X-1 with a Cross-Correlation Method
Zhixing Ling, Shuang Nan Zhang, Jingen Xiang +1
X-ray photons scattered by the interstellar medium carry information about dust distribution, dust grain model, scattering cross section, and the distance of the source; they also…