The First Insight-HXMT Gamma-Ray Burst Catalog: The First Four Years
Abstract
The Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (Insight-HXMT) is China's first X-ray astronomy satellite. It was launched on 2017 June 15. The anticoincidence CsI detectors of the High Energy X-ray telescope (HE) on board Insight-HXMT could serve as an all-sky gamma-ray monitor in about 0.2-3 MeV. In its first four years of operation, Insight-HXMT has detected 322 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) by the offline search pipeline, including blind search and targeted search. For the GOLDEN sample of Insight-HXMT GRBs, joint analyses were performed with other GRB missions, including the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (Fermi/GBM), the Swift Burst Alert Telescope (Swift/BAT), and the Gravitational wave high-energy Electromagnetic Counterpart All-sky Monitor (GECAM). The analyses showed that Insight-HXMT can provide a better constraint on the GRB spectrum at a higher-energy band. The properties of Insight-HXMT GRBs are reported in detail, including their trigger time, duration, spectral parameters, peak fluxes of different timescales, and fluence. This catalog is an official product of the Insight-HXMT GRB team.
- Publication:
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The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
- Pub Date:
- April 2022
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2203.00878
- Bibcode:
- 2022ApJS..259...46S
- Keywords:
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- Gamma-ray bursts;
- 629;
- Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
- E-Print:
- 46 pages, 22 figures, accepted by APJS