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

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astro-ph.IM2026

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…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 3 cited

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…

astro-ph.IM2023

In-orbit Performance of ME onboard Insight-HXMT in the first 5 years

Ying Tan, Xuelei Cao, Weichun Jiang +16

Introduction: The Medium Energy X-ray telescope (ME) is a collimated X-ray telescope onboard the Insight hard X-ray modulation telescope (Insight-HXMT) satellite. It has 1728 Si-PI…

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.IM2022★ 20 cited

GECAM Localization of High Energy Transients and the Systematic Error

Yi Zhao, Wang-Chen Xue, Shao-Lin Xiong +63

Gravitational wave high-energy Electromagnetic Counterpart All-sky Monitor (GECAM) is a pair of microsatellites (i.e. GECAM-A and GECAM-B) dedicated to monitoring gamma-ray transie…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 6 cited

The In-Flight Realtime Trigger and Localization Software of GECAM

Xiao-Yun Zhao, Shao-Lin Xiong, Xiang-Yang Wen +86

Realtime trigger and localization of bursts are the key functions of GECAM, which is an all-sky gamma-ray monitor launched in Dec 10, 2020. We developed a multifunctional trigger a…

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

Calibration of the Instrumental Response of Insight-HXMT/HE CsI Detectors for Gamma-Ray Monitoring

Qi Luo, Jin-Yuan Liao, Xu-Fang Li +17

The CsI detectors of the High Energy X-ray Telescope of the Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (HXMT/CsI) can be used for gamma-ray all sky monitoring and searching for the electromag…

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★ 11 cited

Methodology and Performance of the Two-Year Galactic Plane Scanning Survey of Insight-HXMT

Na Sai, JinYuan Liao, ChengKui Li +7

The Galactic plane scanning survey is one of the main scientific objectives of the Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (known as Insight-HXMT). During the two-year operation of Insight…

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…

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…