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Insight-HXMT on-orbit thermal control status and thermal deformation impact analysis
The Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope is China’s first X-ray astronomy satellite launched on June 15, 2017, dubbed Insight-HXMT. Active and passive thermal control measures are employed to keep devices at suitable ...
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In-orbit performance of LE onboard Insight-HXMT in the first 5 years
The low-energy X-ray telescope (LE) is a main instrument of the Insight-HXMT mission and consists of 96 swept charge devices covering the 1–10 keV energy band. The energy gain and resolution are continuously cali...
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In-orbit performance of HE onboard Insight-HXMT in the first 5 years
The high-energy X-ray telescope (HE), one of the three main payloads of the Insight-HXMT mission, is composed of eighteen NaI(Tl)/CsI(Na) phoswich detectors, where NaI(Tl) serves as the primary detector covering ...
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Long-term evolution of the X-ray flux of the Crab pulsar
In order to carry out in-orbit calibration, the hard X-ray modulation telescope satellite (HXMT) has made a number of observations of Crab pulsar. We study the long-term evolution of the X-ray flux of the Crab...
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Five-year in-orbit background of Insight-HXMT
We present the five-year in-orbit background evolution of Insight-HXMT since the launch, as well as the effects of the background model in data analysis.