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

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astro-ph.IM2025★ 5 cited

In-flight Characteristics and Modelling of the Instrumental Background of EP/FXT

Juan Zhang, Yong Chen, Shumei Jia +15

The in-flight instrumental background of the Follow-up X-ray Telescope (FXT) onboard Einstein Probe (EP) mission is analysed in this work by utilizing observations collected during…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 21 cited

Einstein Probe discovery of EP240408a: a peculiar X-ray transient with an intermediate timescale

Wenda Zhang, Weimin Yuan, Zhixing Ling +136

We report the discovery of a peculiar X-ray transient, EP240408a, by Einstein Probe (EP) and follow-up studies made with EP, Swift, NICER, GROND, ATCA and other ground-based multi-…

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.IM2022★ 26 cited

The 100-m X-ray Test Facility at IHEP

Yusa Wang, Zijian Zhao, Dongjie Hou +14

The 100-m X-ray Test Facility of the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) was initially proposed in 2012 for the test and calibration of the X-ray detectors of the Hard X-ray Mo…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 10 cited

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…

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.IM2021★ 36 cited

Estimate of the Background and Sensitivity of theFollow-up X-ray Telescope onboard Einstein Probe

Juan Zhang, Liqiang Qi, Yanji Yang +15

As a space X-ray imaging mission dedicated to time-domain astrophysics, the Einstein Probe (EP) carries two kinds of scientific payloads, the wide-field X-ray telescope (WXT) and t…

physics.ins-det2021★ 8 cited

Performance of a focal plane detector for soft X-ray imaging spectroscopy based on back-illuminated sCMOS

Can Chen, Yusa Wang, Yupeng Xu +10

Spectroscopy focusing array (SFA) and Polarimetry focusing array (PFA) are the two major payloads of enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry mission (eXTP). Nested Wolter-\RNum{1} X-…

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.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★ 3 cited

The Low Energy X-ray telescope (LE) onboard the Insight-HXMT astronomy satellite

Yong Chen, WeiWei Cui, Wei Li +24

The low energy (LE) X-ray telescope is one of the three main instruments of the Insight-Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (Insight-HXMT). It is equipped with Swept Charge Device (SCD…

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★ 64 cited

Insight-HXMT observations of the first binary neutron star merger GW170817

TiPei Li, ShaoLin Xiong, ShuangNan Zhang +107

Finding the electromagnetic (EM) counterpart of binary compact star merger, especially the binary neutron star (BNS) merger, is critically important for gravitational wave (GW) ast…