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

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18 papers

astro-ph.HE2025

GECAM Discovery of Peculiar Oscillating Particle Precipitation Events

Chenwei Wang, Shaolin Xiong, Yi Zhao +52

Charged particle precipitation typically manifests as a gradual increase and decrease of flux observed by space detectors. Cases with rapidly flux variation are very rare. Periodic…

astro-ph.IM2025

Pitch Angle Measurement Method based on Detector Counts Distribution. -I. Basic conception

Chenwei Wang, Shaolin Xiong, Hongbo Xue +36

As an X-ray and gamma-ray all-sky monitor aiming for high energy astrophysical transients, Gravitational-wave high-energy Electromagnetic Counterpart All-sky Monitor (GECAM) has al…

astro-ph.HE2024

New Timing Results of MSPs from NICER Observations

Shijie Zheng, Dawei Han, Heng Xu +10

Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are known for their long-term stability. Using six years of observations from the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER), we have conducted a…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 2 cited

The GECAM Real-Time Burst Alert System

Yue Huang, Dongli Shi, Xiaolu Zhang +13

Gravitational Wave High-energy Electromagnetic Counterpart All-sky Monitor (GECAM), consisting of two micro-satellites, is designed to detect gamma-ray bursts associated with gravi…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 56 cited

Review of X-ray pulsar spacecraft autonomous navigation

Yidi Wang, Wei Zheng, Shuangnan Zhang +7

This article provides a review on X-ray pulsar-based navigation (XNAV). The review starts with the basic concept of XNAV, and briefly introduces the past, present and future projec…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 1 cited

The performance of SiPM-based gamma-ray detector (GRD) of GECAM-C

Dali Zhang, Chao Zheng, Jiacong Liu +42

As a new member of GECAM mission, the GECAM-C (also called High Energy Burst Searcher, HEBS) is a gamma-ray all-sky monitor onboard SATech-01 satellite, which was launched on July…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 31 cited

Fast On-orbit Pulse Phase Estimation of X-ray Crab Pulsar for XNAV Flight Experiments

Yidi Wang, Shuangnan Zhang, Minyu Ge +4

The recent flight experiments with Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (\textit{NICER}) and \textit{Insight}-Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (\textit{Insight}-HXMT) have dem…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 1 cited

A Localization Method of High Energy Transients for All-Sky Gamma-Ray Monitor

Yi Zhao, Wangchen Xue, Shaolin Xiong +62

Fast and reliable localization of high-energy transients is crucial for characterizing the burst properties and guiding the follow-up observations. Localization based on the relati…

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★ 6 cited

The design and implementation of GECAM satellite payload performance monitoring software

Peng Zhang, Xiang Ma, Yue Huang +7

Background The Gravitational wave high-energy Electromagnetic Counterpart All-sky Monitor (GECAM) is primarily designed to spot gamma-ray bursts corresponding to gravitational wave…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 21 cited

In-orbit timing calibration of the Insight-Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope

Youli Tuo, Xiaobo Li, Mingyu Ge +24

We describe the timing system and the timing calibration results of the three payloads on-board the Insight-Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (Insight-HXMT). These three payloads are…

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.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.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.IM2018★ 329 cited

The enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry mission - eXTP

ShuangNan Zhang, Andrea Santangelo, Marco Feroci +146

In this paper we present the enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry mission - eXTP. eXTP is a space science mission designed to study fundamental physics under extreme conditions of…

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…