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HE3 - The first Chinese X-ray astronomy mission Insight-HXMT at MGXV

Speaker

Zhang, Shu

Coauthors

Zhang Shu et al.

Talk Title

The Insight-HXMT mission and its recent progresses

Abstract

The Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (HXMT or also dubbed as Insight-HXMT) is China’s first astronomical satellite. It was launched on 15th June 2017 in JiuQuan, China and is currently in service smoothly. It was designed to perform pointed, 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 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.

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