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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-3141-2022
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-3141-2022
© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Research article
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20 May 2022
Research article |
| 20 May 2022
| 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
National Space Science Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
Haitao Li
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
National Space Science Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
Key Laboratory of Electronics and Information Technology for Space Systems, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
Baoquan Li
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
National Space Science Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
Key Laboratory of Electronics and Information Technology for Space Systems, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
Mingyu Ge
Key Laboratory of Particle Astrophysics, Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
Youli Tuo
Key Laboratory of Particle Astrophysics, Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
Xiaobo Li
Key Laboratory of Particle Astrophysics, Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
Wangchen Xue
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
Key Laboratory of Particle Astrophysics, Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
Yaning Liu
National Space Science Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
Key Laboratory of Electronics and Information Technology for Space Systems, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
Aoying Wang
School of Physical Science and Technology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China
Yajun Zhu
National Space Science Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
State Key Laboratory of Space Weather, Beijing 100190, China
Bingxian Luo
National Space Science Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Environmental Space Situation Awareness, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
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.
In this work, the measurement of vertical atmospheric density profiles using X-ray Earth...
