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In-orbit Demonstration of X-ray Pulsar Navigation with NinjaSat

This study demonstrated the pulsar navigation capability of the CubeSat X-ray observatory NinjaSat, which is equipped with two Gas Multiplier Counters (GMCs). The GMCs are sensitive to the 2-50 keV energy band and have an effective area of…

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Refined Constraints on the Hard X-ray Polarization of the Crab Pulsar and Nebula Derived from an Extended XL-Calibur Dataset

We present updated hard X-ray polarization measurements of the Crab pulsar and nebula obtained with the balloon-borne polarimeter XL-Calibur in the ~19-64 keV energy range. During the flight, intermittent GPS-failure resulted in poorly…

高能天体物理现象 · 物理学 2026-05-11 Matthew G. Baring , Jacob Casey , Sohee Chun , Ephraim Gau , Tomohiro Hakamata , Kun Hu , Daiki Ishi , Fabian Kislat , Mózsi Kiss , Merlin Kole , Henric Krawczynski , Haruki Kuramoto , Lindsey Lisalda , Bingkun Liu , Yoshitomo Maeda , Hironori Matsumoto , Shravan Vengalil Menon , Takuya Miyazawa , Kaito Murakami , Takashi Okajima , Mark Pearce , Brian Rauch , Kentaro Shirahama , Sean Spooner , Hiromitsu Takahashi , Sayana Takatsuka , Yuusuke Uchida , Varun , Andrew Thomas West

In-orbit demonstration of X-ray pulsar navigation with the Insight-HXMT satellite

In this work, we report the in-orbit demonstration of X-ray pulsar navigation with Insight-Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (Insight-HXMT), which was launched on Jun. 15th, 2017. The new pulsar navigation method 'Significance Enhancement of…

天体物理仪器与方法 · 物理学 2019-09-04 S. J. Zheng , S. N. Zhang , F. J. Lu , W. B. Wang , Y. Gao , T. P. Li , L. M. Song , M. Y. Ge , D. W. Han , Y. Chen , Y. P. Xu , X. L. Cao , C. Z. Liu , S. Zhang , J. L. Qu , Z. Chang , G. Chen , L. Chen , T. X. Chen , Y. B. Chen , Y. P. Chen , W. Cui , W. W. Cui , J. K. Deng , Y. W. Dong , Y. Y. Du , M. X. Fu , G. H. Gao , H. Gao , M. Gao , Y. D. Gu , J. Guan , C. Gungor , C. C. Guo , D. W. Han , W. Hu , Y. Huang , J. Huo , J. F. Ji , S. M. Jia , L. H. Jiang , W. C. Jiang , J. Jin , Y. J. Jin , B. Li , C. K. Li , G. Li , M. S. Li , W. Li , X. Li , X. B. Li , X. F. Li , Y. G. Li , Z. J. Li , Z. W. Li , X. H. Liang , J. Y. Liao , G. Q. Liu , H. W. Liu , S. Z. Liu , X. J. Liu , Y. Liu , Y. N. Liu , B. Lu , X. F. Lu , T. Luo , X. Ma , B. Meng , Y. Nang , J. Y. Nie , G Ou , N. Sai , R. C. Shang , L. Sun , Y. Tan , L. Tao , W. Tao , Y. L. Tuo , G. F. Wang , J. Wang , W. S. Wang , Y. S. Wang , X. Y. Wen , B. B. Wu , M. Wu , G. C. Xiao , S. L. Xiong , H. Xu , L. L. Yan , J. W. Yang , S. Yang , Y. J. Yang , A. M. Zhang , C. L. Zhang , C. M. Zhang , F. Zhang , H. M. Zhang , J. Zhang , Q. Zhang , T. Zhang , W. Zhang , W. C. Zhang , W. Z. Zhang , Y. Zhang , Y. Zhang , Y. F. Zhang , Y. J. Zhang , Z. Zhang , Z. Zhang , Z. L. Zhang , H. S. Zhao , J. L. Zhao , X. F. Zhao , Y. Zhu , Y. X. Zhu , C. L. Zou

Pulsar Selection Criteria and Performance Evaluation of Autonomous X-ray Pulsar Navigation Systems

Current space missions primarily depend on Earth-based Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) systems involving human-in-the-loop operations. X-ray pulsar-based navigation offers a promising alternative by using the very precise periodic…

天体物理仪器与方法 · 物理学 2026-04-22 Sui Chen , Emilie Parent , Nanda Rea , Francesco Topputo

Timing accuracy of the Swift X-Ray Telescope in WT mode

The X-Ray Telescope (XRT) on board Swift was mainly designed to provide detailed position, timing and spectroscopic information on Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) afterglows. During the mission lifetime the fraction of observing time allocated to…

天体物理仪器与方法 · 物理学 2015-06-11 G. Cusumano , V. La Parola , M. Capalbi , M. Perri , A. P. Beardmore , D. N. Burrows , S. Campana , J. A. Kennea , J. P. Osborne , B. Sbarufatti , G. Tagliaferri

On the Possibility of Improving the Orbits of Satellites Based on Observations of Isolated X-ray Pulsars

At present, there is a great worldwide interest in the development of technologies that allow information about the X-ray emission from pulsating cosmic sources to be used to obtain navigation solutions for deep-space spacecraft. In this…

高能天体物理现象 · 物理学 2015-07-15 M. G. Revnivtsev , O. E. Gadzhily , A. A. Lutovinov , S. V. Molkov , V. A. Arefiev , M. N. Pavlinsky , A. G. Tuchin

Pulsar Navigation in the Solar System

The X-ray Navigation and Autonomous position Verification (XNAV) is tested which use the Crab pulsar under the Space Test Program that use starlight refraction. It provide the way that the spacecraft could autonomously determine its…

天体物理学 · 物理学 2015-03-13 Jiang Dong

The XMM-Newton view of the Crab

We discuss the current X-ray view of the Crab Nebula and Pulsar, summarising our analysis of observations of the source with the EPIC-pn camera on board the XMM-Newton observatory. Different modes of EPIC-pn were combined in order to yield…

天体物理学 · 物理学 2009-11-11 M. G. F. Kirsch , G. Schoenherr , E. Kendziorra , M. J. Freyberg , M. Martin , J. Wilms , K. Mukerjee , M. G. Breitfellner , M. J. S. Smith , R. Staubert

Characterization of Pulsar Sources for X-ray Navigation

The Station Explorer for X-ray Timing and Navigation Technology (SEXTANT) is a technology demonstration enhancement to the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) mission, which is scheduled to launch in 2017 and will be hosted…

天体物理仪器与方法 · 物理学 2017-11-27 Paul S. Ray , Kent S. Wood , Michael T. Wolff

Improved Measurements of the IXPE Crab Polarization

X-ray polarization from the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) provides an important new probe of the geometry of the pulsar emission zone and of particle acceleration in the surrounding pulsar wind nebula (PWN). However, with IXPE's…

高能天体物理现象 · 物理学 2023-08-09 Josephine Wong , Roger W. Romani , Jack T. Dinsmore

Absolute timing of the Crab pulsar with the INTEGRAL/SPI telescope

We have investigated the pulse shape evolution of the Crab pulsar emission in the hard X-ray domain of the electromagnetic spectrum. In particular, we have studied the alignment of the Crab pulsar phase profiles measured in the hard X-rays…

高能天体物理现象 · 物理学 2014-11-20 S. Molkov , E. Jourdain , J. P. Roques

Gamma-Ray Polarimetry of the Crab Pulsar Observed by POLAR

The X/$\gamma$ ray polarimetry of the Crab pulsar/nebula is believed to hold crucial information on their emission models. In the past, several missions have shown evidence of polarized emission from the Crab. The significance of these…

高能天体物理现象 · 物理学 2022-03-09 Han-Cheng Li , Nicolas Produit , Shuang-Nan Zhang , Merlin Kole , Jian-Chao Sun , Ming-Yu Ge , Nicolas De Angelis , Johannes Hulsman , Zheng-Heng Li , Li-Ming Song , Teresa Tymieniecka , Bo-Bing Wu , Xin Wu , Yuan-Hao Wang , Shao-Lin Xiong , Yong-Jie Zhang , Yi Zhao , Shi-Jie Zheng

NICER observations of the Crab pulsar glitch of 2017 November

Context: The Crab pulsar underwent its largest timing glitch on 2017 Nov 8. The event was discovered at radio wavelengths, and was followed at soft X-ray energies by observatories, such as XPNAV and NICER. aims: This work aims to compare…

高能天体物理现象 · 物理学 2020-01-15 M. Vivekanand

The relative and absolute timing accuracy of the EPIC-pn camera on XMM-Newton, from X-ray pulsations of the Crab and other pulsars

Reliable timing calibration is essential for the accurate comparison of XMM-Newton light curves with those from other observatories, to ultimately use them to derive precise physical quantities. The XMM-Newton timing calibration is based on…

天体物理仪器与方法 · 物理学 2015-06-04 A. Martin-Carrillo , M. G. F. Kirsch , I. Caballero , M. J. Freyberg , A. Ibarra , E. Kendziorra , U. Lammers , K. Mukerjee , G. Schönherr , M. Stuhlinger , R. D. Saxton , R. Staubert , S. Suchy , A. Wellbrock , N. Webb , M. Guainazzi

AstroSat-CZTI as a hard X-ray Pulsar Monitor

The Cadmium Zinc Telluride Imager (CZTI) is an imaging instrument onboard AstroSat. This instrument operates as a nearly open all-sky detector above ~60 keV, making possible long integrations irrespective of the spacecraft pointing. We…

高能天体物理现象 · 物理学 2021-07-07 K. G. Anusree , D. Bhattacharya , A. R. Rao , S. Vadawale , V. Bhalerao , A. Vibhute

Insight-HXMT observations of the Crab pulsar

We report on X-ray emission properties of the Crab pulsar(PSR B0531+21) using observations by Insight-HXMT during its first year after launch. We obtained high signal-to-noise profiles in the X-ray energy band 11-250 keV. We have confirmed…

高能天体物理现象 · 物理学 2019-06-19 You-Li Tuo , Ming-Yu Ge , Li-Ming Song , Lin-Li Yan , Qing-Cui Bu , Jin-Lu Qu

Chandra Phase-Resolved X-ray Spectroscopy of the Crab Pulsar II

We present a new study of the X-ray spectral properties of the Crab Pulsar. The superb angular resolution of the Chandra X-ray Observatory enables distinguishing the pulsar from the surrounding nebulosity. Analysis of the spectrum as a…

星系天体物理 · 物理学 2015-05-28 Martin C. Weisskopf , Allyn F. Tennant , Dmitry G. Yakovlev , Alice Harding , Vyacheslav E. Zavlin , Stephen L. O'Dell , Ronald F. Elsner , Werner Becker

Feasibility and performance assessment of a practical autonomous deep space navigation system based on X-ray pulsar timing

Shemar et al. (2016) presented results based on the output of a feasibility study for the European Space Agency (ESA) on the use of X-ray pulsars for deep space navigation, a concept often referred to as 'XNAV'. Here we describe some of the…

天体物理仪器与方法 · 物理学 2018-05-16 Setnam Shemar , George Fraser , Lucy Heil , David Hindley , Adrian Martindale , Philippa Molyneux , John Pye , Robert Warwick

Absolute Timing of the Crab Pulsar with RXTE

We have monitored the phase of the main X-ray pulse of the Crab pulsar with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) for almost eight years, since the start of the mission in January 1996. The absolute time of RXTE's clock is sufficiently…

天体物理学 · 物理学 2009-11-10 Arnold H. Rots , Keith Jahoda , Andrew G. Lyne

The optical and near-infrared spectrum of the Crab pulsar with X-shooter

Pulsars are well studied all over the electromagnetic spectrum, and the Crab pulsar may be the most studied object in the sky. Nevertheless, a high-quality optical to near-infrared spectrum of the Crab or any other pulsar has not been…

高能天体物理现象 · 物理学 2019-09-18 J. Sollerman , J. Selsing , P. M. Vreeswijk , P. Lundqvist , A. Nyholm