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Studies on the time response distribution of Insigh}-HXMT/LE

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics 2019-10-11 v1

Abstract

The Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (HXMT) named Insight is China's first X-ray astronomical satellite. The Low Energy X-ray Telescope (LE) is one of its main payloads onboard. The detectors of LE adopt swept charge device CCD236 with L-shaped transfer electrodes. Charges in detection area are read out continuously along specific paths, which leads to a time response distribution of photons readout time. We designed a long exposure readout mode to measure the time response distribution. In this mode, CCD236 firstly performs exposure without readout, then all charges generated in preceding exposure phase are read out completely. Through analysis of the photons readout time in this mode, we obtained the probability distribution of photons readout time.

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@article{arxiv.1910.04702,
  title  = {Studies on the time response distribution of Insigh}-HXMT/LE},
  author = {Xiao-Fan Zhao and Yu-Xuan Zhu and Da-Wei Han and Wei-Wei Cui and Wei Li and Juan Wang and Yu-Sa Wang and Yi Zhang and Yan-Ji Yang and Bo Lu and Jia Huo and Zi-Liang Zhang and Tian-Xiang Chen and Mao-Shun Li and Zhong-Hua Lv and Yong Chen and Qing-Cui Bu and Ce Cai and Xue-Lei Cao and Zhi Chang and Gang Chen and Li Chen and Yi-Bao Chen and Yu-Peng Chen and Wei Cui and Jing-Kang Deng and Yong-Wei Dong and Yuan-Yuan Du and Min-Xue Fu and Guan-Hua Gao and He Gao and Min Gao and Ming-Yu Ge and Yu-Dong Gu and Ju Guan and Cheng-Cheng Guo and Yue Huang and Shu-Mei Jia and Lu-Hua Jiang and Wei-Chun Jiang and Jing Jin and Ling-Da Kong and Bing Li and Cheng-Kui Li and Gang Li and Ti-Bei Li and Xian Li and Xiao-Bo Li and Xu-Fang Li and Yan-Guo Li and Zheng-Wei Li and Xiao-Hua Liang and Jin-Yuan Liao and Cong-Zhan Liu and Guo-Qing Liu and Hong-Wei Liu and Xiao-Jing Liu and Yi-Nong Liu and Fang-Jun Lu and Xue-Feng Lu and Qi Luo and Tao Luo and Xiang Ma and Bin Meng and Yi Nang and Jian-Ying Nie and Jin-Lu Qu and Na Sai and Li-Ming Song and Xin-Ying Song and Liang Sun and Ying Tan and Lian Tao and You-Li Tuo and Chen Wang and Guo-Feng Wang and Xiang-Yang Wen and Bai-Yang Wu and Bo-Bing Wu and Mei Wu and Guang-Cheng Xiao and Shuo Xiao and Shao-Lin Xiong and Yu-Peng Xu and Jia-Wei Yang and Sheng Yang and Qi-Bin Yi and Qian-Qing Yin and Yuan You and Ai-Mei Zhang and Cheng-Mo Zhang and Fan Zhang and Juan Zhang and Shu Zhang and Shuang-Nan Zhang and Tong Zhang and Wan-Chang Zhang and Wei Zhang and Wen-Zhao Zhang and Yi-Fei Zhang and Yong-Jie Zhang and Yue Zhang and Zhao Zhang and Hai-Sheng Zhao and Shi-Jie Zheng and Deng-Ke Zhou and Jian-Feng Zhou and Yue Zhu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.04702},
  year   = {2019}
}