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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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  1. Key Laboratory of Particle Astrophysics, Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China

    Shuang-Nan Zhang, TiPei Li, FangJun Lu, LiMing Song, YuPeng Xu, CongZhan Liu, Yong Chen, XueLei Cao, QingCui Bu, Zhi Chang, Gang Chen, TianXiang Chen, YuPeng Chen, Wei Cui, WeiWei Cui, YongWei Dong, YuanYuan Du, 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, 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, HongWei Liu, ShaoZhen Liu, XiaoJing Liu, Bo Lu, XueFeng Lu, Tao Luo, Xiang Ma, Bin Meng, Yi Nang, JianYin Nie, Ge Ou, JinLu Qu, Na Sai, Liang Sun, Ying Tan, Lian Tao, YouLi Tuo, 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, AiMei Zhang, ChunLei Zhang, ChengMo Zhang, Fan Zhang, HongMei Zhang, Juan Zhang, Qiang Zhang, Shu Zhang, Tong Zhang, WanChang Zhang, Wei Zhang, Yi Zhang, YiFei Zhang, YongJie Zhang, Yue Zhang, ZiLiang Zhang, HaiSheng Zhao, XiaoFan Zhao, ShiJie Zheng, YuXuan Zhu & Yue Zhu

  2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China

    Shuang-Nan Zhang, TiPei Li, LiMing Song, YuPeng Xu, GuanHua Gao, He Gao, ChengCheng Guo, Yue Huang, ZiJian Li, Yi Nang, Na Sai, YouLi Tuo, Chen Wang, BaiYang Wu, GuangCheng Xiao, LinLi Yan, Wei Zhang, Yue Zhang & XiaoFan Zhao

  3. Department of Astronomy, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China

    TiPei Li & Wei Cui

  4. Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China

    YiBao Chen, JingKang Deng, MinXue Fu, GuoQing Liu, RenCheng Shang & Zhao Zhang

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    Li Chen & WenZhao Zhang

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This work made use of the data from the Insight-HXMT mission, a project funded by China National Space Administration (CNSA) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). The authors thank support from the National Key Research and Development Program of China (Grant No. 2016YFA0400800), the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant Nos. XDA04010202, XDA04010300, and XDB23040400), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. U1838201, and U1838102).

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Zhang, SN., Li, T., Lu, F. et al. Overview to the Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (Insight-HXMT) Satellite. Sci. China Phys. Mech. Astron. 63, 249502 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11433-019-1432-6

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