Overview to the Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (Insight-HXMT) Satellite
Abstract
As China's first X-ray astronomical satellite, the Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (HXMT), which was dubbed as Insight-HXMT after the launch on June 15, 2017, is a wide-band (1-250 keV) slat-collimator-based X-ray astronomy satellite with the capability of all-sky monitoring in 0.2-3 MeV. It was designed to perform pointing, scanning and gamma-ray burst (GRB) observations and, based on the Direct Demodulation Method (DDM), the image of the scanned sky region can be reconstructed. Here we give an overview of the mission and its progresses, including payload, core sciences, ground calibration/facility, ground segment, data archive, software, in-orbit performance, calibration, background model, observations and some preliminary results.
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@article{arxiv.1910.09613,
title = {Overview to the Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (Insight-HXMT) Satellite},
author = {ShuangNan Zhang and TiPei Li and FangJun Lu and LiMing Song and YuPeng Xu and CongZhan Liu and Yong Chen and XueLei Cao and QingCui Bu and Ce Cai and Zhi Chang and Gang Chen and Li Chen and TianXiang Chen and Wei Chen and YiBao Chen and YuPeng Chen and Wei Cui and WeiWei Cui and JingKang Deng and YongWei Dong and YuanYuan Du and MinXue Fu and GuanHua Gao and He Gao and Min Gao and MingYu Ge and YuDong Gu and Ju Guan and Can Gungor and ChengCheng Guo and DaWei Han and Wei Hu and Yan Huang and Yue Huang and Jia Huo and ShuMei Jia and LuHua Jiang and WeiChun Jiang and Jing Jin and YongJie Jin and Lingda Kong and Bing Li and ChengKui Li and Gang Li and MaoShun Li and Wei Li and Xian Li and XiaoBo Li and XuFang Li and YanGuo Li and ZiJian Li and ZhengWei Li and XiaoHua Liang and JinYuan Liao and Baisheng Liu and GuoQing Liu and HongWei Liu and ShaoZhen Liu and XiaoJing Liu and Yuan Liu and YiNong Liu and Bo Lu and XueFeng Lu and Qi Luo and Tao Luo and Xiang Ma and Bin Meng and Yi Nang and JianYin Nie and Ge Ou and JinLu Qu and Na Sai and RenCheng Shang and GuoHong Shen and XinYing Song and Liang Sun and Ying Tan and Lian Tao and WenHui Tao and YouLi Tuo and ChunQin Wang and GuoFeng Wang and HuanYu Wang and Juan Wang and WenShuai Wang and YuSa Wang and XiangYang Wen and BoBing Wu and Mei Wu and GuangCheng Xiao and Shuo Xiao and ShaoLin Xiong and He Xu and LinLi Yan and JiaWei Yang and Sheng Yang and YanJi Yang and Qibin Yi and JiaXi Yu and Bin Yuan and AiMei Zhang and ChunLei Zhang and ChengMo Zhang and Fan Zhang and HongMei Zhang and Juan Zhang and Liang Zhang and Qiang Zhang and ShenYi Zhang and Shu Zhang and Tong Zhang and Wei Zhang and WanChang Zhang and WenZhao Zhang and Yi Zhang and Yue Zhang and YiFei Zhang and YongJie Zhang and Zhao Zhang and Zhi Zhang and ZiLiang Zhang and HaiSheng Zhao and JianLing Zhao and XiaoFan Zhao and ShiJie Zheng and Yue Zhu and YuXuan Zhu and Renlin Zhuang and ChangLin Zou},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.09613},
year = {2020}
}
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29 pages, 40 figures, 6 tables, to appear in Sci. China-Phys. Mech. Astron. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1910.04434