| Progress Report on Insight-HXMT: China's First X-ray Astronomy Satellite |
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| 作者姓名： | ZHANG Shuangnan |
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| 作者单位： | Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049 |
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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.
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| 关 键 词： | X-ray astronomy Black holes Neutron stars Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) |
| 收稿时间： | 2020-03-22 |
Progress Report on Insight-HXMT: China's First X-ray Astronomy Satellite |
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| ZHANG Shuangnan.Progress Report on Insight-HXMT: China's First X-ray Astronomy Satellite[J].Chinese Journal of Space Science,2020,40(5):655-661. |
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| Authors: | ZHANG Shuangnan |
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| Institution: | Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049 |
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| 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. |
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| Keywords: | X-ray astronomy Black holes Neutron stars Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) |
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