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SCIENCE CHINA-PHYSICS MECHANICS & ASTRONOMY
Volume 63, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
SCIENCE PRESS
DOI: 10.1007/s11433-019-1432-6
Keywords
X- and gamma-ray telescopes and instrumentation; neutron stars; black holes; X-ray binaries; gamma-ray bursts
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- China National Space Administration (CNSA)
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2016YFA0400800]
- Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences [XDA04010202, XDA04010300, XDB23040400]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [U1838201, U1838102]
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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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