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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Living Reference Work Entry In depth
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 ...
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Open AccessInsight-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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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Open AccessIntroduction 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.
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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 ...