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2017 年 第 30 次 / No.30 2017
Time: Wed. 2:30 PM, Nov. 1st Location: A601 NAOC
Introduction to Insight-HXMT: China’s first X-ray Astronomy Satellite
Prof. Shuang-Nan Zhang Institute of High Energy Physics, CAS
Prof. Shuang-Nan Zhang obtained bachelor degree from Tsinghua
University and PhD Degree from University of Southampton (UK).
Now, he is the director of Key Laboratory of Particle Astrophysics
and Division for Particle Astrophysics, Institute of High Energy
Physics, and Chief Scientist of the Division for Space Science
Research, NAOC, CAS. He has won Zhao-Jiu-Zhang “Space
Science Award”, National Distinguished Young Investigator of
NSFC, Copernicus Distinguished Scientist Award of University of
Ferrara (Italy), Yangtze Scholar Distinguished Professorship of the Ministry of Education of China, and has been
selected into the National “Thousand Talents” Program. He is the PI of the gamma-ray polarimetry POLAR
experiment onboard China’s TG-2 Spacelab (launched in Sept. 2016), and the Insight-HXMT astronomy
satellite （launched in June 2017). He is also leading two future large missions, the enhanced X-ray Timing and
Polarimetry (eXTP) Observatory and High Energy cosmic-Ray Detector (HERD) onboard China’s future space
station. He has made more than 200 refereed publications with more than 6500 citations.
Abstract Insight-HXMT is China’s first X-ray Astronomy Satellite
launched on June 15th, 2017. It carries three sets of
collimated X-ray instruments, covering energy ranges of
1-15 keV, 5-30 keV, and 20-250 keV, respectively. In
addition, it can serve as a nearly all-sky monitor for high
energy sources between 0.2 to 3 MeV, such as bright pulsars
and gamma-ray bursts. The performance verification (PV)
and calibration program will finish in early November 2017 and the regular science observation program will be
followed afterwards. In this talk, I will describe the instrumentation of Insight-HXMT, its in-orbit performance
and some preliminary results from the PV and calibration observations, including the Galactic plane scanning
survey, black holes, pulsars, gamma-ray bursts and some peculiar phenomena. The Chinese and international
astronomy communities are welcome to use Insight-HXMT and analyze its rich data.
