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.
- Publication:
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Science China Physics, Mechanics, and Astronomy
- Pub Date:
- April 2020
- DOI:
- 10.1007/s11433-019-1432-6
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1910.09613
- Bibcode:
- 2020SCPMA..6349502Z
- Keywords:
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- X- and γ-ray telescopes and instrumentation;
- neutron stars;
- black holes;
- X-ray binaries;
- γ-ray bursts;
- Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics;
- Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
- E-Print:
- 29 pages, 40 figures, 6 tables, to appear in Sci. China-Phys. Mech. Astron. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1910.04434