Measurement of the vertical atmospheric density profile from the X-ray Earth occultation of the Crab Nebula with Insight-HXMT

Yu, Daochun; Li, Haitao; Li, Baoquan; Ge, Mingyu; Tuo, Youli; Li, Xiaobo; Xue, Wangchen; Liu, Yaning; Wang, Aoying; Zhu, Yajun; Luo, Bingxian

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-3141-2022

Articles | Volume 15, issue 10

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 15, 3141–3159, 2022

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-3141-2022

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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 15, 3141–3159, 2022

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-3141-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 15, issue 10

Research article

20 May 2022

Research article | 20 May 2022

Measurement of the vertical atmospheric density profile from the X-ray Earth occultation of the Crab Nebula with Insight-HXMT

Daochun Yu et al.

Data sets

Proposal HXMT http://archive.hxmt.cn/proposal

Short summary

In this work, the measurement of vertical atmospheric density profiles using X-ray Earth occultation is investigated. The Earth’s density profile for the lower thermosphere is obtained with Insight-HXMT. It is shown that the Insight-HXMT X-ray satellite of China can be used as an X-ray atmospheric diagnostics instrument for the upper atmosphere. The Insight-HXMT satellite can, with other X-ray astronomical satellites in orbit, form a network for X-ray Earth occultation sounding in the future.