Insight-HXMT Research Progress Since 2023

Abstract

Since the launch in June 2017, Insight-HXMT has been in service smoothly in orbit and particularly productive in 2023 and 2024. Among a total number of 238 papers published so far based on Insight-HXMT data, 63 were published in 2023, and 32 in the early 2024 (till 2024 April), accounting for 40% of the total. These studies cover a variety of scientific subjects including the basic properties of black holes and neutron stars, the outburst of accreting black hole and neutron star X-ray binaries, thermal nuclear burst probes, isolated pulsars, quasi periodical oscillations, cyclotron resonant scattering features, fast radio bursts and gamma-ray bursts, etc. This paper introduces the overall progress with focus on some potential breakthroughs.

Keywords

• Insight-HXMT
• Black hole
• Neutron star
• Outburst