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Methodology and performance of the two-year galactic plane scanning survey of Insight-HXMT

Zhang, Shu; Zhang, Shuang-Nan; Liu, Yuan +7 more

The Galactic plane scanning survey is one of the main scientific objectives of the Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (known as Insight-HXMT). During the two-year operation of Insight-HXMT, more than 1000 scanning observations have been performed and the whole Galactic plane (0^∘ < l <360^∘, -10^∘ < b <10