Speaker
Jingwei Hu
(National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Description
The Einstein Probe (EP) is an interdisciplinary mission of time-domain and X-ray astronomy. It was launched into orbit from the Xichang satellite launch centre on January 9, 2024. From 2024 July the commissioning and calibration phase was successfully completed and the nominal operations phase has started. The Wide-field X-ray Telescope (WXT), one of the two main payloads on board EP, is to monitor the sky with on-board triggering capability. Some of the WXT performances have also been demonstrated by the EP/WXT pathfinder LEIA (Lobster-Eye Imager for Astronomy) in orbit, launched in July 2022. In this talk, I will introduce the latest X-ray source population of the WXT on board the EP and the first source catalog of the LEIA.
Primary author
Jingwei Hu
(National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
