Overview to the Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (Insight-HXMT) Satellite

Zhang S., Li T., Lu F., Song L., Xu Y., Liu C., ...Daha Fazla

SCIENCE CHINA-PHYSICS MECHANICS & ASTRONOMY, cilt.63, sa.4, 2020 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Derleme
  • Cilt numarası: 63 Sayı: 4
  • Basım Tarihi: 2020
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1007/s11433-019-1432-6
  • Dergi Adı: SCIENCE CHINA-PHYSICS MECHANICS & ASTRONOMY
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus, Aerospace Database, Communication Abstracts, Compendex, Metadex, zbMATH, Civil Engineering Abstracts
  • İstanbul Üniversitesi Adresli: Hayır

Özet

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.