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HXMT

(Hard X-Ray Modulation Telescope, Insight)
(space X-ray observatory launched in 2017)

HXMT (for Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope, aka Insight) is a Chinese X-ray space observatory in service since 2017, to observe X-ray sources such as black holes, neutron stars, active galactic nuclei. It hosts three telescopes, covering three overlapping photon energy ranges.


(telescope,X-ray,spacecraft,Chinese)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_X-ray_Modulation_Telescope
http://www.hxmt.org/
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018SPIE10699E..1UZ/abstract
WaveLFreqPhoton
Energy
  
5.0pm60EHz250keVbeginHXMT
1.3nm242PHz1keVendHXMT

Referenced by pages:
X-ray
XTP

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