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

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arxiv 1910.09613 v1 pith:XWZ74ORY submitted 2019-10-21 astro-ph.IM astro-ph.HE

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

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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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