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

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.

arXiv comment29 pages, 40 figures, 6 tables, to appear in Sci. China-Phys. Mech. Astron. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1910.04434

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• The evolution of the broadband temporal features observed in the black-hole transient MAXI J1820+070 with Insight-HXMT
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• Insight-HXMT Study of the Inner Accretion Disk in the Black Hole Candidate EXO 1846--031
• Discovery of delayed spin-up behavior following two large glitches in the Crab pulsar, and the statistics of such processes
• Peculiar disk behaviors of the black hole candidate MAXI J1348-630 in the hard state observed by Insight-HXMT and Swift
• A Phase-resolved View of the Low-frequency Quasiperiodic Oscillations from the Black Hole Binary MAXI J1820+070
• Reanalysis of the X-ray burst associated FRB 200428 with Insight-HXMT observations
• New method for Earth neutral atmospheric density retrieval based on energy spectrum fitting during occultation with LE/\emph{Insight}-HXMT
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• Hilbert-Huang Transform analysis of quasi-periodic oscillations in MAXI J1820+070
• Time-dependent visibility modelling of a relativistic jet in the X-ray binary MAXI J1803-298
• Wavelet analysis of the transient QPOs in MAXI J1535$-$571 with Insight-HXMT
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