Overview to the Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (Insight-HXMT) Satellite
ShuangNan Zhang, TiPei Li, FangJun Lu, LiMing Song, YuPeng Xu,, CongZhan Liu, Yong Chen, XueLei Cao, QingCui Bu, Ce Cai, Zhi Chang, Gang, Chen, Li Chen, TianXiang Chen, Wei Chen, YiBao Chen, YuPeng Chen, Wei Cui,, WeiWei Cui, JingKang Deng, YongWei Dong, YuanYuan Du, MinXue Fu
TL;DR
Insight-HXMT is China's first X-ray astronomy satellite, capable of wide-band observations and all-sky monitoring, providing valuable data on cosmic X-ray sources and gamma-ray bursts since its launch in 2017.
Contribution
This paper provides a comprehensive overview of Insight-HXMT's mission, payload, calibration, and preliminary scientific results, highlighting its capabilities and progress in X-ray astronomy.
Findings
Successful in-orbit performance and calibration
Detection of various X-ray sources and gamma-ray bursts
Development of data processing and background models
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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