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20142023
most citedInsight-HXMT observations of jet-like corona in a black hole X-ray binary MAXI J1820+070

89 citations · 419 across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

astro-ph.CO2023★ 3 cited

The chromatic Point Spread Function of weak lensing measurement in Chinese Space Station survey Telescope

Q. Y. Liu, X. Z. Er, Z. H. Fan +6

The weak gravitational lensing is a powerful tool in modern cosmology. To accurately measure the weak lensing signal, one has to control the systematic bias to a small level. One o…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 4 cited

In-orbit performance of LE onboard Insight-HXMT in the first 5 years

Xiaobo Li, Yong Chen, Liming Song +18

Purpose: The Low-Energy X-ray telescope (LE) is a main instrument of the Insight-HXMT mission and consists of 96 Swept Charge Devices (SCD) covering the 1-10 keV energy band. The e…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 8 cited

Measurement of the vertical atmospheric density profile from the X-ray Earth occultation of the Crab Nebula with Insight-HXMT

Daochun Yu, Haitao Li, Baoquan Li +8

In this paper, the X-ray Earth occultation (XEO) of the Crab Nebula is investigated by using the Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (Insight-HXMT). The pointing observation data on th…

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.EP2022★ 17 cited

New method for Earth neutral atmospheric density retrieval based on energy spectrum fitting during occultation with LE/\emph{Insight}-HXMT

Daochun Yu, Haitao Li, Baoquan Li +5

We propose a new method for retrieving the atmospheric number density profile in the lower thermosphere, based on the X-ray Earth occultation of the Crab Nebula with the Hard X-ray…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 5 cited

The removal method and generation mechanism of spikes in Insight-HXMT/HE telescope

Baiyang Wu, Yifei Zhang, Xiaobo Li +5

Spikes are some obvious sharp increases that appear on the raw light curves of High Energy X-ray telescope(HE) onboard Insight-HXMT, which could have influences on the data product…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 37 cited

Detection of flare multi-periodic pulsations in mid-ultraviolet Balmer continuum, Ly-alpha, hard X-ray, and radio emissions simultaneously

Dong Li, Mingyu Ge, Marie Dominique +7

Quasi-periodic pulsations (QPPs), which usually appear as temporal pulsations of the total flux, are frequently detected in the light curves of solar/stellar flares. In this study,…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 4 cited

Disk vs wind accretion in X-ray pulsar GX 301-2

Jiren Liu, Long Ji, Peter A. Jenke +8

GX 301-2 provides a rare opportunity to study both disk and wind accretion in a same target. We report Insight-HXMT observations of the spin-up event of GX 301-2 happened in 2019 a…

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.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…

physics.ins-det2019

Design and Calibration of the High Energy Particle Monitor onboard the Insight-HXMT

Xuefeng Lu, Congzhan Liu, Xiaobo Li +11

Three high energy particle monitors (HPMs) employed onboard the Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope Insight-HXMT) can detect the charged particles from South Atlantic Anomaly (SAA) and…

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.HE2017★ 36 cited

Diagnosing the kinematics of the tori in active galactic nuclei with the velocity-resolved reverberation mapping of the narrow iron K line

Yuan Liu, Xiaobo Li

The properties of the dusty tori in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) have been investigated in detail, mainly focusing on the geometry and components; however, the kinematics of the t…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 7 cited

The clumpy torus around type II AGN as revealed by X-ray fluorescent lines

Jiren Liu, Yuan Liu, Xiaobo Li +3

The reflection spectrum of the torus around AGN is characterized by X-ray fluorescent lines, which are most prominent for type II AGN. A clumpy torus allows photons reflected from…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 3 cited

Point source detection performance of Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope imaging observation

Zhuoxi Huo, Yiming Li, Xiaobo Li +1

The Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (HXMT) will perform an all-sky survey in hard X-ray band as well as deep imaging of a series of small sky regions. We expect various compact obj…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 37 cited

A direct comparison of X-ray spectral models for tori in active galactic nuclei

Yuan Liu, Xiaobo Li

Several X-ray spectral models for tori in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are available to constrain the properties of tori; however, the accuracy of these models has not been verifi…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 65 cited

An X-ray spectral model for clumpy tori in active galactic nuclei

Yuan Liu, Xiaobo Li

We construct an X-ray spectral model for the clumpy torus in an active galactic nucleus (AGN) using Geant4, which includes the physical processes of the photoelectric effect, Compt…