Detection of an Orphan X-ray Flare from a Blazar Candidate EP240709a with Einstein Probe

Autor: Liu, Mingjun, Zhang, Yijia, Wang, Yun, Xue, Rui, Buckley, David, Howell, D. Andrew, Jin, Chichuan, Li, Wenxiong, Monageng, Itumeleng, Pan, Haiwu, Sun, Ning-Chen, Tinyanont, Samaporn, Wang, Lingzhi, Yuan, Weimin, An, Jie, Andrews, Moira, Anutarawiramkul, Rungrit, Butpan, Pathompong, Cheng, Huaqing, Dai, Cui-Yuan, Dai, Lixin, Farah, Joseph, Feng, Hua, Fu, Shaoyu, Guo, Zhen, Jiang, Shuaiqing, Li, An, Li, Dongyue, Liang, Yifang, Liu, Heyang, Liu, Xing, Liu, Yuan, Mao, Jirong, McCully, Curtis, Newsome, Megan, Gonzalez, Estefania Padilla, Pan, Xin, Sun, Xinxiang, Terreran, Giacomo, Wang, Ze-Rui, Wu, Qinyu, Xiao, Hubing, Xiong, Dingrong, Xu, Dong, Xu, Xinpeng, Xue, Suijian, Yang, Haonan, Yang, Jun, Zhang, Jin, Zhang, Wenda, Zhang, Wenjie, Zou, Hu

Blazars are often observed to flare across multiple wavelengths. Orphan flares from blazars have been only detected a few times, providing an opportunity to understand the structure of the jet in the accreting system. We report a remarkable orphan X-

Externí odkaz: http://arxiv.org/abs/2412.18463

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

Autor: Zhang, Wenda, Yuan, Weimin, Ling, Zhixing, Chen, Yong, Rea, Nanda, Rau, Arne, Cai, Zhiming, Cheng, Huaqing, Zelati, Francesco Coti, Dai, Lixin, Hu, Jingwei, Jia, Shumei, Jin, Chichuan, Li, Dongyue, O'Brien, Paul, Shen, Rongfeng, Shu, Xinwen, Sun, Shengli, Sun, Xiaojin, Wang, Xiaofeng, Yang, Lei, Zhang, Bing, Zhang, Chen, Zhang, Shuang-Nan, Zhang, Yonghe, An, Jie, Buckley, David, Coleiro, Alexis, Cordier, Bertrand, Dou, Liming, Eyles-Ferris, Rob, Fan, Zhou, Feng, Hua, Fu, Shaoyu, Fynbo, Johan P. U., Galbany, Lluis, Jha, Saurabh W., Jiang, Shuaiqing, Kong, Albert, Kuulkers, Erik, Lei, Weihua, Li, Wenxiong, Liu, Bifang, Liu, Mingjun, Liu, Xing, Liu, Yuan, Liu, Zhu, Maitra, Chandreyee, Marino, Alessio, Monageng, Itumeleng, Nandra, Kirpal, Sanders, Jeremy, Soria, Roberto, Tao, Lian, Wang, Junfeng, Wang, Song, Wang, Tinggui, Wang, Zhongxiang, Wu, Qingwen, Wu, Xuefeng, Xu, Dong, Xu, Yanjun, Xue, Suijian, Xue, Yongquan, Zhang, Zijian, Zhu, Zipei, Zou, Hu, Bao, Congying, Chen, Fansheng, Chen, Houlei, Chen, Tianxiang, Chen, Wei, Chen, Yehai, Chen, Yifan, Cui, Chenzhou, Cui, Weiwei, Dai, Yanfeng, Fan, Dongwei, Guan, Ju, Han, Dawei, Hou, Dongjie, Hu, Haibo, Huang, Maohai, Huo, Jia, Jia, Zhenqing, Jiang, Bowen, Jin, Ge, Li, Chengkui, Li, Junfei, Li, Longhui, Li, Maoshun, Li, Wei, Li, Zhengda, Lian, Tianying, Liu, Congzhan, Liu, Heyang, Liu, Huaqiu, Lu, Fangjun, Luo, Laidan, Ma, Jia, Mao, Xuan, Pan, Haiwu, Pan, Xin, Song, Liming, Sun, Hui, Tan, Yunyin, Tang, Qingjun, Tao, Yihan, Wang, Hao, Wang, Juan, Wang, Lei, Wang, Wenxin, Wang, Yilong, Wang, Yusa, Wu, Qinyu, Xu, Haitao, Xu, Jingjing, Xu, Xinpeng, Xu, Yunfei, Xu, Zhao, Xue, Changbin, Xue, Yulong, Yan, Ailiang, Yang, Haonan, Yang, Xiongtao, Yang, Yanji, Zhang, Juan, Zhang, Mo, Zhang, Wenjie, Zhang, Zhen, Zhang, Ziliang, Zhao, Donghua, Zhao, Haisheng, Zhao, Xiaofan, Zhao, Zijian, Zhou, Hongyan, Zhou, Yilin, Zhu, Yuxuan, Zhu, Zhencai

Publikováno v: published in SCIENCE CHINA Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy(SCPMA) (2024)

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-wavelength telescopes. The new transient was first detected with Wide-

Externí odkaz: http://arxiv.org/abs/2410.21617

X-ray Sources Classification Using Machine Learning: A Study with EP-WXT Pathfinder LEIA

Autor: Zuo, Xiaoxiong, Tao, Yihan, Liu, Yuan, Xu, Yunfei, Zhang, Wenda, Pan, Haiwu, Sun, Hui, Zhang, Zhen, Cui, Chenzhou, Yuan, Weimin

X-ray observations play a crucial role in time-domain astronomy. The Einstein Probe (EP), a recently launched X-ray astronomical satellite, emerges as a forefront player in the field of time-domain astronomy and high-energy astrophysics. With a focus

Externí odkaz: http://arxiv.org/abs/2407.11462

The fast X-ray transient EP240315a: a z ~ 5 gamma-ray burst in a Lyman continuum leaking galaxy

Autor: Levan, Andrew J., Jonker, Peter G., Saccardi, Andrea, Malesani, Daniele Bjørn, Tanvir, Nial R., Izzo, Luca, Heintz, Kasper E., Sánchez, Daniel Mata, Quirola-Vásquez, Jonathan, Torres, Manuel A. P., Vergani, Susanna D., Schulze, Steve, Rossi, Andrea, D'Avanzo, Paolo, Gompertz, Benjamin, Martin-Carrillo, Antonio, Postigo, Antonio de Ugarte, Schneider, Benjamin, Yuan, Weimin, Ling, Zhixing, Zhang, Wenjie, Mao, Xuan, Liu, Yuan, Sun, Hui, Xu, Dong, Zhu, Zipei, Fernández, José Feliciano Agüí, Amati, Lorenzo, Bauer, Franz E., Campana, Sergio, Carotenuto, Francesco, Chrimes, Ashley, van Dalen, Joyce N. D., D'Elia, Valerio, Della Valle, Massimo, De Pasquale, Massimiliano, Dhillon, Vikram S., Galbany, Lluís, Gaspari, Nicola, Gianfagna, Giulia, Gomboc, Andreja, Habeeb, Nusrin, van Hoof, Agnes P. C., Hu, Youdong, Jakobsson, Pall, Julakanti, Yashaswi, Korth, Judith, Kouveliotou, Chryssa, Laskar, Tanmoy, Littlefair, Stuart P., Maiorano, Elisabetta, Mao, Jirong, Melandri, Andrea, Miller, M. Coleman, Mukherjee, Tamal, Oates, Samantha R., O'Brien, Paul, Palmerio, Jesse T., Parviainen, Hannu, Pieterse, Daniëlle L. A., Piranomonte, Silvia, Piro, Luigi, Pugliese, Giovanna, Ravasio, Maria E., Rayson, Ben, Salvaterra, Ruben, Sánchez-Ramírez, Rubén, Sarin, Nikhil, Shilling, Samuel P. R., Starling, Rhaana L. C., Tagliaferri, Gianpiero, Thakur, Aishwarya Linesh, Thöne, Christina C., Wiersema, Klaas, Worssam, Isabelle, Zafar, Tayyaba

The nature of the minute-to-hour long Fast X-ray Transients (FXTs) localised by telescopes such as Chandra, Swift, and XMM-Newton remains mysterious, with numerous models suggested for the events. Here, we report multi-wavelength observations of EP24

Externí odkaz: http://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16350

Radiation Effects on Scientific CMOS Detectors for X-ray Astronomy: II. Total Ionizing Dose Irradiation

Autor: Chen, Mengxi, Ling, Zhixing, Liu, Mingjun, Wu, Qinyu, Zhang, Chen, Liu, Jiaqiang, Zhang, Zhenlong, Yuan, Weimin, Zhang, Shuang-Nan

Complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) detectors are a competitive choice for current and upcoming astronomical missions. To understand the performance variations of CMOS detectors in space environment, we investigate the total ionizing dose

Externí odkaz: http://arxiv.org/abs/2403.15764