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On Things to Come Webinar

Highlights of the Insight-HXMT X-ray Astronomy Satellite

Speaker: ZHANG Shuangnan

( Institute of High Energy Physics, CAS, China)

Wednesday, 24 November 2021

4 pm GMT+8

Watch it on Zoom or Bilibili

Insight-HXMT (hxmt.cn) is China’s first X-ray astronomy satellite and was successfully launched on June 15th, 2017. It carries three sets of collimated X-ray instruments with large effective areas, covering energy ranges of 1-15 keV, 5-30 keV, and 20-250 keV, respectively. In addition, it can also serve as an all-sky monitor for high energy sources between 0.2 to 3 MeV, such as bright pulsars and gamma-ray bursts.

This talk will review some highlights of the scientific results of Insight-HXMT, including discoveries of the highest energy fundamental frequency of neutron star’s cyclotron absorption feature from an accretion neutron star, the highest energy low frequency quasi-periodic oscillations from an accretion black hole which is evidence for a relativistic jet near the black hole, the first non-thermal X-ray burst associated with a fast radio burst and its identification with a magnetar, etc. Insight-HXMT has been performing well in orbit and is expected to operate for several more years. The observational program of Insight-HXMT is open world-wide.

About Prof. ZHANG Shuangnan

Prof. ZHANG is the Director of Key Laboratory of Particle Astrophysics and Center for Particle Astrophysics, Institute of High Energy Physics; He is the Chief Scientist of Space Science Division and Director of the X-ray Imaging Laboratory, National Astronomical Observatories of China; He is also the Professor of University of Chinese Academy of Sciences.

His research interests cover most areas in high energy astrophysics, as well as cosmology and general relativity. He is the PI of several space experiments/missions, including POLAR, HXMT (since 2016), eXTP and HERD, and the Chinese Co-PI of SVOM. He is also a main promoter and serves as a science advisor to several space missions, including GECAM, EP and CATCH. He has authored and co-authored more than 300 refereed publications with more than 10000 citations.

Schedule

23 September 2020 4 pm (GMT+8)	Geraint Jones – ESA Comet Interceptor Mission [YouTube/Youku]
21 October 2020 8 pm (GMT+8)	Ralph Lorenz – NASA Dragonfly Mission [YouTube/Youku]
4 November 2020 4 pm (GMT+8)	Wang Chi – ESA SMILE Mission [YouTube/Youku]
25 November 2020 4 pm (GMT+8)	Heike Rauer – ESA PLATO Mission [YouTube/Youku]
9 December 2020 4 pm (GMT+8)	Takehiko Satoh – JAXA Akatsuki Mission [YouTube/Bilibili]
18 December 2020 4 pm (GMT+8)	Olivier Witasse – ESA JUICE Mission [YouTube/Bilibili]
21 December 2020 4 pm (GMT+8)	Tomohiro Usui – JAXA MMX Mission [YouTube/Bilibili]
13 January 2021 4 pm (GMT+8)	Weiqun Gan – CAS ASO-S Mission [YouTube/Bilibili]
27 January 2021 4 pm (GMT+8)	Giovanna Tinetti – ESA Ariel Mission [YouTube/Bilibili]
24 February 2021 4 pm (GMT+8)	Johannes Benkhoff – ESA BepiColombo Mission I [YouTube/Bilibili]
10 March 2021 4 pm (GMT+8)	Gabriele Cremonese – ESA BepiColombo Mission II [YouTube/Bilibili]
24 March 2021 4 pm (GMT+8)	Go Murakami – ESA BepiColombo Mission III [YouTube/Bilibili]
7 April 2021 4 pm (GMT+8)	Yoshifumi Saito – ESA BepiColombo Mission IV [YouTube/Bilibili]
14 April 2021 4 pm (GMT+8)	Daniel Mueller – ESA Solar Orbiter Mission I [YouTube/Bilibili]
21 April 2021 4 pm (GMT+8)	Stefano Vitale – ESA LISA Mission [YouTube/Bilibili]
6 May 2021 9 am (GMT+8)	Andy Cheng – NASA DART Mission [YouTube/Bilibili]
12 May 2021 9 am (GMT+8)	Robert Pappalardo – NASA Europa Clipper [YouTube/Bilibili]
19 May 2021 4 pm (GMT+8)	Saem Krucker – ESA Solar Orbiter Mission II Watch
25 May 2021 4 pm (GMT+8)	Sami Solanki – ESA Solar Orbiter Mission III Watch
2 June 2021 4 pm (GMT+8)	Athena Coustenis – ESA's ExoMars Missions Watch
9 June 2021 4 pm (GMT+8)	Yuan Weimin – CAS Einstein Probe Mission Watch
16 June 2021 10 am (GMT+8)	Evgenya Shkolnik – NASA SPARCS Mission Watch
30 June 2021 4 pm (GMT+8)	René Laurelijs – ESA EUCLID Mission Watch
7 July 2021 4 pm (GMT+8)	ZHAN Hu – CMS Chinese Space Station Telescope Watch
14 July 2021 4 pm (GMT+8)	Tomoko Arai – JAXA DESTINY+ Mission Watch
21 July 2021 4 pm (GMT+8)	Micheal Küppers – ESA HERA Mission Watch
25 August 2021 4 pm (GMT+8)	LI Zhengqiang – CAS Gaofen-5 Watch
9 Sept. 2021 10 am (GMT+8)	Lindy Elkins-Tanton – NASA Psyche Mission Watch
15 Sept. 2021 4 pm (GMT+8)	LIN Honglei – CAS Tianwen-1 Watch
22 Sept. 2021 9 am (GMT+8)	Hal Levison – NASA Lucy Mission Watch
29 Sept. 2021 9 am (GMT+8)	Ralph McNutt – NASA Interstellar Probe Watch
27 Oct. 2021 4 pm (GMT+8)	FAN Yizhong – CAS DAMPE Mission Watch
10 Nov. 2021 4 pm (GMT+8)	ZHANG Peng – CAS Fengyun Mission Watch
24 Nov. 2021 4 pm (GMT+8)	ZHANG Shuangnan - Highlits of the Insight-HXMY X-ray Astronomy Satellite Attend
16 Dec. 2021 4 pm (GMT+8)	SHEN Xuhui - The latest Progress of CSES Mission

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