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most citedOverview to the Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (Insight-HXMT) Satellite

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astro-ph.IM2023

Five-year in-orbit background of Insight-HXMT

Jin-Yuan Liao, Shu Zhang, Juan Zhang +24

Purpose: We present the five-year in-orbit background evolution of Insight-HXMT since the launch, as well as the effects of the background model in data analysis. Methods: The back…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 3 cited

Background Model for the High-Energy Telescope of Insight-HXMT

Jin-Yuan Liao, Shu Zhang, Xue-Feng Lu +20

Accurate background estimation is essential for spectral and temporal analysis in astrophysics. In this work, we construct the in-orbit background model for the High-Energy Telesco…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 4 cited

Background Model for the Low-Energy Telescope of Insight-HXMT

Jin-Yuan Liao, Shu Zhang, Yong Chen +16

With more than 150 blank sky observations at high Galactic latitude, we make a systematic study to the background of the Low Energy Telescope (LE) of the Hard X-ray Modulation Tele…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 5 cited

The Background Model of the Medium Energy X-ray telescope of Insight-HXMT

Cheng-Cheng Guo, Jin-Yuan Liao, Shu Zhang +26

The Medium Energy X-ray Telescope (ME) is one of the main payloads of the Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (dubbed as Insight-HXMT). The background of Insight-HXMT/ME is mainly caus…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 16 cited

In-orbit Calibration to the Point-Spread Function of Insight-HXMT

Yi Nang, Jin-Yuan Liao, Na Sai +9

We make the in-orbit calibration to the point-spread functions (PSFs) of the collimators of the Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope with the scanning observation of the Crab. We constr…

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

Studies on the time response distribution of Insigh}-HXMT/LE

Xiao-Fan Zhao, Yu-Xuan Zhu, Da-Wei Han +105

The Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (HXMT) named Insight is China's first X-ray astronomical satellite. The Low Energy X-ray Telescope (LE) is one of its main payloads onboard. The…