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Development and characterization of a millimeter-wave cold load prototype
Ruya Cong, Junjie Zhou, Yu Xu +7
Superconducting transition-edge sensors (TESs) are crucial detectors for cosmic microwave background (CMB) observations and require stable and tunable millimeter-wave cold loads fo…
A New Method for Identifying Contaminating Sources and Locating Target Sources through the Cross-Arm Features of Micro Pore Optics
Yiming Huang, Lian Tao, Jin-Yuan Liao +15
The Pathfinder of the Type-A satellites in the Chasing All Transients Constellation Hunters (CATCH) space mission is equipped with Micro-Pore Optics (MPOs) and four single-pixel Si…
Beyond One-Thousandth Energy Resolution with an AlMn TES Detector
Liangpeng Xie, Yifei Zhang, Zhengwei Li +10
The superconducting Transition-Edge Sensor (TES) is a critical technology for next-generation X-ray spectrometers, known for its exceptional energy resolution. In the last decade,…
Design and characterization of W-band and D-band calibration sources for the AliCPT-1 experiment
Xu-Fang Li, Cong-Zhan Liu, Ai-Mei Zhang +11
Ali Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization Telescope (AliCPT-1) is the first Chinese cosmic microwave background experiment aiming to make sensitive polarization maps of the pote…
Development of Low-Noise Two-stage dc-SQUID for TES Detector Readout
Nan Li, Mengjie Song, Sixiao Hu +9
Direct-current superconducting quantum interference devices (dc-SQUIDs) are one of the most sensitive magnetic detectors. These sensors are extensively used in the readout of super…
Fabrication and Characterization of X-ray TES Detectors Based on Annular AlMn Alloy Films
Yifei Zhang, Zhengwei Li, Mengxian Zhang +16
AlMn alloy flms are widely fabricated into superconducting transition edge sensors (TESs) for the detection of cosmic microwave background radiation. However, the application in X-…
Fabrication and characterization of AlMn alloy superconducting films for 0vbb experiments
Zhouhui Liu, Yifei Zhang, Yu Xu +13
Neutrinoless double-beta decay (0vbb) experiments constitute a pivotal probe for elucidating the characteristics of neutrinos and further discovering new physics. Compared to the n…
Development of 6-inch 80-170 GHz broadband silicon plated horn antenna arrays for primordial gravitational wave search
Yuanhang He, Shibo Shu, Yaqiong Li +18
Searching for primordial gravitational wave in cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization signal is one of the key topics in modern cosmology. Cutting-edge CMB telescopes requi…
The Sliding Flux Ramp Demodulation Algorithm with High Sampling Rate in Microwave SQUID Multiplexer
Guofu Liao, Congzhan Liu, Zhengwei Li +12
Microwave SQUID Multiplexing (uMUX) is a widely used technique in the low temperature detectors community as it offers high capacity of reading out large scale Transition-Edge Sens…
PSR J1231-1411 revisited: Pulse Profile Analysis of X-ray Observation
Liqiang Qi, Shijie Zheng, Juan Zhang +14
One of the primary goals of Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER)-like X-ray missions is to impose stringent constraints on the neutron star equation of state by preci…
Performance Analysis of Digital Flux-locked Loop Circuit with Different SQUID - Transfer Curves for TES Readout System
Nan Li, Xiang-xiang Ren, Le-peng Li +11
A superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID), functioning as a nonlinear response device, typically requires the incorporation of a flux-locked loop (FLL) circuit to facil…
Ground calibration and network of the first CATCH pathfinder
Yiming Huang, Jingyu Xiao, Lian Tao +53
The Chasing All Transients Constellation Hunters (CATCH) space mission is focused on exploring the dynamic universe via X-ray follow-up observations of various transients. The firs…
Cryogenic microwave performance of silicon nitride and amorphous silicon deposited using low-temperature ICPCVD
Jiamin Sun, Shibo Shu, Ye Chai +10
Fabrication of dielectrics at low temperature is required for temperature-sensitive detectors. For superconducting detectors, such as transition edge sensors and kinetic inductance…
Simulation Studies for the First Pathfinder of the CATCH Space Mission
Yiming Huang, Juan Zhang, Lian Tao +42
The Chasing All Transients Constellation Hunters (CATCH) space mission is an intelligent constellation consisting of 126 micro-satellites in three types (A, B, and C), designed for…
A ThermalKinetic Inductance Detectors Pixel Design for Cosmic Microwave Background Observations at 90/150 GHz bands
Ye Chai, Shibo Shu, Yongping Li +10
The highly sensitive millimeter-wave telescope is an important tool for accurate measurement of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation, and its core component is a detector ar…
Insight-HXMT on-orbit thermal control status and thermal deformation impact analysis
Aimei Zhang, Yifan Zhang, Jinyuan Liao +23
Purpose: The Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope is China's first X-ray astronomy satellite launched on June 15th, 2017, dubbed Insight-HXMT. Active and passive thermal control measure…
In-orbit background simulation of a type-B CATCH satellite
Jingyu Xiao, Liqiang Qi, Shuang-Nan Zhang +23
The Chasing All Transients Constellation Hunters (CATCH) space mission plans to launch three types of micro-satellites (A, B, and C). The type-B CATCH satellites are dedicated to l…
Forecasts of CMB lensing reconstruction of AliCPT-1 from the foreground cleaned polarization data
Jiakang Han, Bin Hu, Shamik Ghosh +14
Cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB) observations are unavoidably contaminated by emission from various extra-galactic foregrounds, which must be removed to obtain reliable…
Insight-HXMT and GECAM-C observations of the brightest-of-all-time GRB 221009A
Zheng-Hua An, S. Antier, Xing-Zi Bi +174
GRB 221009A is the brightest gamma-ray burst ever detected since the discovery of this kind of energetic explosions. However, an accurate measurement of the prompt emission propert…
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…
In-orbit performance of HE onboard Insight-HXMT in the first 5 years
Xu-Fang Li, Cong-Zhan Liu, Yi-Fei Zhang +10
Purpose: The High-Energy X-ray telescope (HE), one of the three main payloads of the \textit{Insight}-HXMT mission, is composed of eighteen NaI(Tl)/CsI(Na) phoswich detectors, wher…
CATCH: Chasing All Transients Constellation Hunters Space Mission
Panping Li, Qian-Qing Yin, Zhengwei Li +34
In time-domain astronomy, a substantial number of transients will be discovered by multi-wavelength and multi-messenger observatories, posing a great challenge for follow-up capabi…
An Insight-HXMT view of the mHz quasi-regular modulation phenomenon in the black hole X-ray binary 4U 1630-47
Zi-Xu Yang, Liang Zhang, Yue Huang +97
Here we report the spectral-timing results of the black hole X-ray binary 4U 1630-47 during its 2021 outburst using observations from the Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope. Type-C qu…
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…