Progress Report on Insight-HXMT: China's First X-ray Astronomy Satellite

ZHANG Shuangnan

doi:10.11728/cjss2020.05.655

Progress Report on Insight-HXMT: China's First X-ray Astronomy Satellite

doi: 10.11728/cjss2020.05.655

ZHANG Shuangnan

Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049

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ZHANG Shuangnan,E-mail:zhangsn@ihep.ac.cn

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- 收稿日期: 2020-03-22
- 刊出日期: 2020-09-15

Progress Report on Insight-HXMT: China's First X-ray Astronomy Satellite

ZHANG Shuangnan

Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049

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ZHANG Shuangnan,E-mail:zhangsn@ihep.ac.cn

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摘要: Insight-HXMT is China's first X-ray astronomy satellite. It was launched on 15 June 2017 and is currently in service smoothly. Insight-HXMT has been used to scan the Galactic plane repeatedly, making pointing observations to neutron stars and black holes, and monitor the whole sky continuously in the MeV band. Insight-HXMT is also very flexible in making ToO observations, with the response time from about 3 hours to within a day. So far more than 50 refereed publications have been made with data from its observations; many more publications have used the data or results of Insight-HXMT one way or another. The scientific impacts of Insight-HXMT have been growing rapidly since launch. We expect Insight-HXMT to continue to operate for several more years.
- X-ray astronomy /
- Black holes /
- Neutron stars /
- Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs)
Abstract: Insight-HXMT is China's first X-ray astronomy satellite. It was launched on 15 June 2017 and is currently in service smoothly. Insight-HXMT has been used to scan the Galactic plane repeatedly, making pointing observations to neutron stars and black holes, and monitor the whole sky continuously in the MeV band. Insight-HXMT is also very flexible in making ToO observations, with the response time from about 3 hours to within a day. So far more than 50 refereed publications have been made with data from its observations; many more publications have used the data or results of Insight-HXMT one way or another. The scientific impacts of Insight-HXMT have been growing rapidly since launch. We expect Insight-HXMT to continue to operate for several more years.
- X-ray astronomy /
- Black holes /
- Neutron stars /
- Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs)

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