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Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope
Alternative namesHXMT Edit this at Wikidata
Location(s)People's Republic of China Edit this at Wikidata
Telescope stylespace telescope
X-ray telescope Edit this on Wikidata
Websitenewshxmt.ihep.ac.cn/index.php/enhome Edit this at Wikidata
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Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (HXMT) also known as Insight (Chinese: 慧眼)[1] is a Chinese X-ray space observatory, launched on June 15, 2017[2] to observe black holes, neutron stars and other phenomena based on their X-ray and gamma ray emissions.[3] It will be China's first astronomy satellite.[4] It is based on the JianBing 3 imagery reconnaissance satellite series platform.

The main scientific instrument is an array of 18 NaI(Tl)/CsI(na) slat-collimated "phoswich" scintillation detectors, collimated to 5.7°×1° overlapping fields of view.[5] The main NaI detectors have an area of 286 cm2 each, and cover the 20—200 keV energy range. Data analysis is planned to be by a direct algebraic method, "direct demodulation",[6] which has shown promise in de-convolving the raw data into images while preserving excellent angular and energy resolution.

The project, a joint collaboration of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Tsinghua University, has been under development since 2000.

References

  1. ^ "China launches space telescope to search for black holes, pulsars - Xinhua | English.news.cn". news.xinhuanet.com.
  2. ^ Rui C. Barbosa (14 June 2017). "China launches X-ray telescope via Long March 4B". NASASpaceFlight.com. Retrieved 15 June 2017.
  3. ^ Jones, Andrew (8 September 2016). "Tiangong-2 to launch next week in step towards Chinese space station". gbtimes. Retrieved 9 September 2016.
  4. ^ SpaceDaily, "China Focus: Timeline for China's space research revealed", Xinhua, 4 September 2012
  5. ^ HXMT.cn, Configuration Archived July 7, 2011, at the Wayback Machine (Hard X-ray telescope design) c.2004
  6. ^ HXMT.cn, The direct demodulation method Archived July 7, 2011, at the Wayback Machine (Imaging by direct deconvolution) c.2004
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