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

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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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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, GuanHua Gao, He Gao, Min Gao, MingYu Ge, YuDong Gu, Ju Guan, Can Gungor, ChengCheng Guo, DaWei Han, Wei Hu, Yan Huang, Yue Huang, Jia Huo, ShuMei Jia, LuHua Jiang, WeiChun Jiang, Jing Jin, YongJie Jin, Lingda Kong, Bing Li, ChengKui Li, Gang Li, MaoShun Li, Wei Li, Xian Li, XiaoBo Li, XuFang Li, YanGuo Li, ZiJian Li, ZhengWei Li, XiaoHua Liang, JinYuan Liao, Baisheng Liu, GuoQing Liu, HongWei Liu, ShaoZhen Liu, XiaoJing Liu, Yuan Liu, YiNong Liu, Bo Lu, XueFeng Lu, Qi Luo, Tao Luo, Xiang Ma, Bin Meng, Yi Nang, JianYin Nie, Ge Ou, JinLu Qu, Na Sai, RenCheng Shang, GuoHong Shen, XinYing Song, Liang Sun, Ying Tan, Lian Tao, WenHui Tao, YouLi Tuo, ChunQin Wang, GuoFeng Wang, HuanYu Wang, Juan Wang, WenShuai Wang, YuSa Wang, XiangYang Wen, BoBing Wu, Mei Wu, GuangCheng Xiao, Shuo Xiao, ShaoLin Xiong, He Xu, LinLi Yan, JiaWei Yang, Sheng Yang, YanJi Yang, Qibin Yi, JiaXi Yu. 2019-10-21. Overview to the Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (Insight-HXMT) Satellite. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11433-019-1432-6

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