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SVOM, the Space-based Variable astronomical Object Monitor, launched on June 22nd 2024, is a Chinese-French mission focused on exploring the brightest phenomena in the cosmos - Gamma-Ray Bursts. Among the four instruments on board is the…

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AstroSat is India's first space-based astronomical observatory, launched on September 28, 2015. One of the payloads aboard AstroSat is the Cadmium Zinc Telluride Imager (CZTI), operating at hard X-rays. CZTI employs a two-dimensional coded…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-17 Ajay Vibhute , Dipankar Bhattacharya , N. P. S. Mithun , V. Bhalerao , A. R. Rao , S. V. Vadawale

This paper introduces a multiscale maximum entropy (MSME) algorithm for image restoration of the Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (HXMT), which is a collimated scan X-ray satellite mainly devoted to a sensitive all-sky survey and pointed…

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The X and Gamma-ray telescope ECLAIRs is foreseen to be launched on a low Earth orbit (h=630 km, i=30 degrees) aboard the SVOM satellite (Space-based multi-band astronomical Variable Objects Monitor), a French-Chinese mission with Italian…

The China Space Station Telescope (CSST) will enter a low Earth orbit around 2024 and operate for 10 years, with seven of those years devoted to surveying the area of the median-to-high Galactic latitude and median-to-high Ecliptic latitude…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-06 Zhensen Fu , Zhaoxiang Qi , Shilong Liao , Xiyan Peng , Yong Yu , Qiqi Wu , Li Shao , Youhua Xu

The Space-based multi-band astronomical Variable Objects Monitor (SVOM) is an approved satellite mission for Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) studies, developed in cooperation between the Chinese National Space Agency (CNSA), the Chinese Academy of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-25 Stéphane Schanne , Bertrand Cordier , Jean-Luc Atteia , Olivier Godet , Cyril Lachaud , Karine Mercier

X-ray astronomy is a mature area of observational astronomy. After the discovery of the first non-solar X-ray source in 1962, X-ray astronomy proliferated during the Apollo era's space race. Then, it matured as an established area of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-02 A R Rao

Since its launch on October 2002, the INTEGRAL satellite has revolutionized our knowledge of the hard X-ray sky thanks to its unprecedented imaging capabilities and source detection positional accuracy above 20 keV. Nevertheless, many of…

SiTian is an ambitious ground-based all-sky optical monitoring project, developed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The concept is an integrated network of dozens of 1-m-class telescopes deployed partly in China and partly at various…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-10 JiFeng Liu , Roberto Soria , Xue-Feng Wu , Hong Wu , Zhaohui Shang

The International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT) is a 4-meter class survey telescope that has recently achieved first light and is expected to swing into full operations by 1st January 2023. It scans the sky in a fixed 22' wide strip…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-20 Naveen Dukiya , Kuntal Misra , Bikram Pradhan , Vibhore Negi , Bhavya Ailawadhi , Brajesh Kumar , Paul Hickson , Jean Surdej

The Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST), also known as the Guoshoujing Telescope, is a major national scientific facility for astronomical research located in Xinglong, China. Beginning with a pilot survey in…

The Chinese Ground Follow-up Telescope (C-GFT) is an optical facility upgraded to support the Space Variable Objects Monitor mission (\textit{SVOM}). Located at the Jilin Observation Station, it is capable of rapidly identifying and…

The China Space Station Telescope (CSST, also known as Xuntian) is a serviceable two-meter-aperture wide-field telescope operating in the same orbit as the China Space Station. The CSST plans to survey a sky area of 17,500 deg$^2$ of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-17 Chengqi Liu , Youhua Xu , Xianmin Meng , Xin Zhang , Shi-Yu Li , Yuming Fu , Xiaofeng Wang , Shufei Liu , Zun Luo , Guanghuan Wang , Hu Zhan

The Microchannel X-ray Telescope (MXT) is one of four instruments on the Space-based multi-band astronomical Variable Objects Monitor (SVOM) satellite mission, launched on the 22nd June 2024. The MXT is a narrow-field-optimised, lobster eye…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-12 Charly Feldman , James Pearson , Gillian Butcher , Richard Willingale , Paul O'Brien , Julian Osborne , Karine Mercier , Jean-Michel Le Duigou , Diego Gotz

As one of the key ground-based facilities of the Chinese-French SVOM mission, the main scientific objectives of the Ground-based Wide Angle Camera array (GWAC) are to detect prompt optical emission of gamma-ray bursts or other short…

The orbital observatory Spectrum-Roentgen-Gamma (SRG), equipped with the grazing-incidence X-ray telescopes Mikhail Pavlinsky ART-XC and eROSITA, was launched by Roscosmos to the Lagrange L2 point of the Sun-Earth system on July 13, 2019.…

Astrometry is one of the main pillars of astronomy, and one of its oldest branches. Over the years, an increasing number of astrometric works by means of Hubble Space Telescope (HST) data have revolutionized our understanding of various…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-30 M. Libralato , I. Argyriou , D. Dicken , M. García Marín , P. Guillard , D. C. Hines , P. J. Kavanagh , S. Kendrew , D. R. Law , A. Noriega-Crespo , J. Álvarez-Márquez

Corona cooling was detected previously from stacking a series of short type-I bursts occurred during the low/had state of atoll outburst. Type-I bursts are hence regarded as sharp probe to our better understanding on the basic property of…

The China Space Station Telescope (CSST), slated to become China's largest space-based optical telescope in the coming decade, is designed to conduct wide-field sky surveys with high spatial resolution. Among its key observational modes,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-18 Xin Zhang , Yue-dong Fang , Cheng-liang Wei , Guo-liang Li , Feng-shan Liu , Hang-xin Ji , Hao Tian , Nan Li , Xian-min Meng , Jian-jun Chen , Xia Wang , Rui Wang , Chao Liu , Zhong-wen Hu , Ran Li , Peng Wei , Jing Tang

Since its launch on October 2002, the INTEGRAL satellite has revolutionized our knowledge of the hard X-ray sky thanks to its unprecedented imaging capabilities and source detection positional accuracy above 20 keV. Nevertheless, many of…