The third Antarctic Survey Telescope array instrument at Dome A in Antarctica, the AST3-3 telescope, has been in commissioning from March 2021. We deployed AST3-3 at the Yaoan astronomical station in Yunnan Province for an automatic time-domain survey and follow-up observations with an optimised observation and protection system. The telescope system of AST3-3 is similar to that of AST3-1 and AST3-2, except that it is equipped with a 14K~×~10K QHY411 CMOS camera. AST3-3 has a field of view of 1.65∘×1.23∘ and is currently using the g band filter. During commissioning at Yaoan, AST3-3 aims to conduct an extragalactic transient survey, coupled with prompt follow-ups of opportunity targets. In this paper, we present the architecture of the AST3-3 automatic observation system. We demonstrate the data processing of observations by representatives SN 2022eyw and GRB 210420B.
@article{arxiv.2206.03170,
title = {Antarctic Survey Telescope 3-3: Overview, System Performance and Preliminary Observations at Yaoan, Yunnan},
author = {Tianrui Sun and Xiaoyan Li and Lei Hu and Kelai Meng and Zijian Han and Maokai Hu and Zhengyang Li and Haikun Wen and Fujia Du and Shihai Yang and Bozhong Gu and Xiangyan Yuan and Yun Li and Huihui Wang and Lei Liu and Zhenxi Zhu and Xuehai Huang and Chengming Lei and Lifan Wang and Xuefeng Wu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.03170},
year = {2022}
}