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

• DOI: 10.1007/s11433-019-1432-6
• Publication Date: 2020-02-24T04:06:04Z
• Authors: Shuang-Nan Zhang; TiPei Li; FangJun Lu; LiMing Song; YuPeng Xu; CongZhan Liu; Yong Chen; XueLei Cao; QingCui Bu; Zhi Chang; Gang Chen; Li Chen; TianXiang 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; Yue Huang; Jia Huo; ShuMei Jia; LuHua Jiang; WeiChun Jiang; Jing Jin; YongJie Jin; 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; GuoQing Liu; HongWei Liu; ShaoZhen Liu; XiaoJing Liu; Yuan Liu; YiNong Liu; Bo Lu; XueFeng Lu; Tao Luo; Xiang Ma; Bin Meng; Yi Nang; JianYin Nie; Ge Ou; JinLu Qu; Na Sai; RenCheng Shang; GuoHong Shen; Liang Sun; Ying Tan; Lian Tao; YouLi Tuo; Chen Wang; ChunQin Wang; GuoFeng Wang; HuanYu Wang; Juan Wang; WenShuai Wang; YuSa Wang; XiangYang Wen; BaiYang Wu; BoBing Wu; Mei Wu; GuangCheng Xiao; ShaoLin Xiong; LinLi Yan; JiaWei Yang; Sheng Yang; YanJi Yang; QiBin Yi; Bin Yuan; AiMei Zhang; ChunLei Zhang; ChengMo Zhang; Fan Zhang; HongMei Zhang; Juan Zhang; Qiang Zhang; ShenYi Zhang; Shu Zhang; Tong Zhang; WanChang Zhang; Wei Zhang; WenZhao Zhang; Yi Zhang; YiFei Zhang; YongJie Zhang; Yue Zhang; Zhao Zhang; Zhi Zhang; ZiLiang Zhang; HaiSheng Zhao; XiaoFan Zhao; ShiJie Zheng; JianFeng Zhou; YuXuan Zhu; Yue Zhu; RenLin Zhuang
• Keywords: Payload (computing); Ground segment; Collimator; Modulation (music)

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.<br/>29 pages, 40 figures, 6 tables, to appear in Sci. China-Phys. Mech. Astron. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1910.04434<br/>