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The Insight-HXMT mission and its recent progresses

Authors :
Yupeng Xu
Jing Jin
Lian Tao
Shaolin Xiong
G. F. Wang
X. L. Cao
Shu-Mei Jia
F. J. Lu
Shu Zhang
C. K. Li
J. Y. Liao
Yu-Peng Chen
Li-Ming Song
J. Y. Nie
Xiaobo Li
Tao Li
H. S. Zhao
Y. B. Chen
Shuang-Nan Zhang
ShiJie Zheng
J. L. Qu
C. Z. Liu
J. Guan
Fan Zhang
Huanyu Wang
X. Ma
Yue Huang
Ming-Yu Ge
Junqiang Zhang
Publication Year :
2019
Publisher :
arXiv, 2019.

Abstract

The Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope HXMT or also dubbed as Insight HXMT is China s first astronomical satellite . It was launched on 15 th June 2017 in JiuQuan, China and is currently in service smoothly. It was designed to perform point ing , scan ning 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 introduce the mission and its progresses in aspects of payload, core sciences, ground calibration/facility , ground segment, data archive, software, in orbit performance, calibration, background model, observations and preliminary results .<br />Comment: published in Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 10699, id. 106991U 22 pp. (2018)

Details

Database :
OpenAIRE
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....4e374184bc5f531b65940412913329e4
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1910.04434