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    Research and establishment of the X-ray monochromator at the 100XF

    The 100-m X-ray Test Facility (100XF) was developed according to the calibration requirement of the first X-ray astronomical satellite Insight-HXMT in china. After that, the 100XF has provided calibration service...

    Dongjie Hou, Yifan Zhang, Yuxuan Zhu, Zijian Zhao, Ziliang Zhang in Experimental Astronomy (2024)

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    Design and characterization of a 90 GHz CMB TES bolometer

    The transition-edge sensor (TES) as a type of low-temperature superconducting detector offers superior sensitivity due to its low thermal noise. In this work, we present a prototype TES bolometer designed for ...

    Yu Xu, Zhengwei Li, Yong** Li, Yifei Zhang, Xufang Li in Experimental Astronomy (2024)

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    A Thermal Kinetic Inductance Detector Pixel Design for CMB Polarization Observations at 90/150 GHz Bands

    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 array located in a cryogenic fo...

    Ye Chai, Shibo Shu, Yong** Li, Jiamin Sun in Journal of Low Temperature Physics (2024)

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    The Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope

    The Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (HXMT), dubbed as Insight-HXMT after its launch on June 15, 2017, is China’s first X-ray astronomical satellite. It carries three slat-collimated X-ray telescopes: the hard ...

    Fangjun Lu, Yupeng Xu, Congzhan Liu in Handbook of X-ray and Gamma-ray Astrophysi… (2024)

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    The removal method and generation mechanism of spikes in Insight-HXMT/HE telescope

    Spikes are some obvious sharp increases that appear on the raw light curves of Insight-HXMT’s High Energy X-ray telescope(HE), which could have influences on data products like energy and power spectra. They are ...

    Baiyang Wu, Yifei Zhang, **aobo Li, Haisheng Zhao, Mingyu Ge in Experimental Astronomy (2022)

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    The Hard X-Ray Modulation Telescope

    The Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (HXMT), dubbed as Insight-HXMT after its launch on June 15, 2017, is China’s first X-ray astronomical satellite. It carries three slat-collimated X-ray telescopes: the hard ...

    Fangjun Lu, Yupeng Xu, Congzhan Liu in Handbook of X-ray and Gamma-ray Astrophysi…

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    Insight-HXMT observations of jet-like corona in a black hole X-ray binary MAXI J1820+070

    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 other. However, such an evoluti...

    Bei You, Yuoli Tuo, Chengzhe Li, Wei Wang, Shuang-Nan Zhang in Nature Communications (2021)

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

    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 keV) slat-collimator-based X-ra...

    Shuang-Nan Zhang, TiPei Li, FangJun Lu in Science China Physics, Mechanics & Astrono… (2020)

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    The High Energy X-ray telescope (HE) onboard the Insight-HXMT astronomy satellite

    The Insight-Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (Insight-HXMT) is a broadband X-ray and γ-ray (1-3000 keV) astronomy satellite. One of its three main telescopes is the High Energy X-ray telescope (HE). The main detec...

    CongZhan Liu, YiFei Zhang, XuFang Li in Science China Physics, Mechanics & Astrono… (2020)

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    GRID: a student project to monitor the transient gamma-ray sky in the multi-messenger astronomy era

    The Gamma-Ray Integrated Detectors (GRID) is a space mission concept dedicated to monitoring the transient gamma-ray sky in the energy range from 10 keV to 2 MeV using scintillation detectors onboard CubeSats ...

    Jiaxing Wen, **angyun Long, Xutao Zheng, Yu An, Zhengyang Cai in Experimental Astronomy (2019)

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

    Finding the electromagnetic (EM) counterpart of binary compact star merger, especially the binary neutron star (BNS) merger, is critically important for gravitational wave (GW) astronomy, cosmology and fundame...

    TiPei Li, ShaoLin **ong, ShuangNan Zhang in Science China Physics, Mechanics & Astrono… (2017)

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    Introduction to the detection technology of Ali CMB polarization telescope

    Ali CMB polarization telescope (AliCPT) project is a well-timed and well-planned ground-based CMB project in Ali (Nagri) area of Tibet, China. It has been approved at the end of 2016.

    He Gao, Congzhan Liu, Zhangwei Li, Yang Liu in Radiation Detection Technology and Methods (2017)

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    Introduction to a calibration facility for hard X-ray detectors

    This paper introduces the current configuration of the Hard X-ray Calibration Facility (HXCF) in 2014, which is used to calibrate the high energy X-ray detectors that will be onboard the Hard X-ray Modulation ...

    Xu Zhou, **nQiao Li, YaNing **e, CongZhan Liu, Shu Zhang in Experimental Astronomy (2014)