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Sources of Gamma-Ray Bursts
A serendipitous discovery of highly intense and short-lived bursts of gamma rays was made by instruments on satellites launched in the late 1960s for...
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Variably polarized X-ray sources for LPD calibration
This article presents the design and implementation of a soft X-ray polarized calibration platform based on Bragg’s Law and Fresnel’s Law, which is...
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Gas Pixel Detectors for Photoelectric X-ray Astronomical Polarimetry
The gas pixel detector is a true 2D imaging device that has been designed and built to image the projection of the photoelectron track, produced by...
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X-Ray Astronomy and Close Binary Systems
AbstractThe discovery in 1962 of the compact source Sco X-1, the first X-ray source located outside the Solar System, marked a new (“golden”) era in...
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Gamma-Ray Bursts
Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are short and intense bursts of ∼100 keV−1 MeV photons, usually followed by long-lasting decaying afterglow emission in a...
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The scientific performance of the microchannel X-ray telescope on board the SVOM mission
The Microchannel X-ray Telescope (MXT) will be the first focusing X-ray telescope based on a narrow field “Lobster-Eye” optical design to be flown on...
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The Lunar Environment Heliophysics X-ray Imager (LEXI) Mission
The Lunar Environment heliospheric X-ray Imager (LEXI) is a wide field-of-view soft X-ray telescope developed to study solar wind-magnetosphere...
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Probing the High Redshift Universe with Extreme X-Ray/Optical Sources (EXOs)
Extreme X-ray/Optical ratio sources (EXOs) are a class of source that are robustly detected in our Chandra Deep Field X-ray data, while being...
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Accreting Strongly Magnetized Neutron Stars: X-ray Pulsars
X-ray pulsars (XRPs) are accreting strongly magnetized neutron stars (NSs) in binary systems with, as a rule, massive optical companions. Very reach...
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Cascaded hard X-ray self-seeded free-electron laser at megahertz repetition rate
High-resolution X-ray spectroscopy in the sub-nanosecond to femtosecond time range requires ultrashort X-ray pulses and a spectral X-ray flux...
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Some Recent, Interesting Observations of Gamma-Ray Bursts
I review some of the observations of time histories, energy spectra, and the statisticalprop erties of gamma ray bursts (GRBs) which have been made...
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Time-Projection Chamber X-Ray Polarimeters
The time-projection chamber (TPC) X-ray polarimeter is a micropattern gas detector that exploits the polarization sensitivity of the photoelectric...
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Lobster Eye X-ray Optics
This chapter describes the history, principles, and recent developments of large field of view X-ray optics based on lobster eye designs. Most of...
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Cd(Zn)Te Detectors for Hard X-Ray and Gamma-Ray Astronomy
The energy range of hard X-rays and gamma-rays is dominated by non-thermal emissions. Physical processes such as particle acceleration, accretion,...
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Cd(Zn)Te Detectors for Hard X-Ray and Gamma-Ray Astronomy
The energy range of hard X-rays and gamma-rays is dominated by non-thermal emissions. Physical processes such as particle acceleration, accretion,...
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Magnetar spin-down glitch clearing the way for FRB-like bursts and a pulsed radio episode
Magnetars are a special subset of the isolated neutron star family, with X-ray and radio emission mainly powered by the decay of their immense...
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Gas microchannel plate-pixel detector for X-ray polarimetry
POLAR-2 is a gamma-ray burst (GRB) polarimeter that is designed to study the polarization in GRB radiation emissions, aiming to improve our knowledge...
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Temporal and Spectral Analysis of X-Ray Afterglows of GRBs Observed by BeppoSAX
Afterglow sources contain critical information on the origin of GRBs and on the nature of the explosion. We present a systematic study of 13 X-ray...
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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....
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X-Ray Bursts from a Random Cavity Emerging in an Inter-Electrode Polydisperse Plasma of Nanosecond Vacuum Discharge. II. Diffusion Model of X-Ray Emission
We use Letokhov’s concept of stochastic feedback to interpret experiments on X-ray spontaneous emission from a polydisperse plasma of a nanosecond...