The Chinese Small Telescope ARray (hereinafter CSTAR) is the first Chinese astronomical instrument on the Antarctic ice cap. The low temperature and low pressure testing of the data acquisition system was carried out in a laboratory refrigerator and on the 4500m Pamirs high plateau, respectively. The results from the final four nights of test observations demonstrated that CSTAR was ready for operation at Dome A, Antarctica. In this paper we present a description of CSTAR and the performance derived from the test observations.
@article{arxiv.1001.4935,
title = {Testing and Data Reduction of the Chinese Small Telescope Array (CSTAR) for Dome A, Antarctica},
author = {Xu Zhou and Zhenyu Wu and Zhaoji Jiang and Xiangqun Cui and Longlong Feng and Xuefei Gong and Jingyao Hu and Qisheng Li and Genrong Liu and Jun Ma and Jiali Wang and Lifan Wang and Jianghua Wu and Lirong Xia and Jun Yan and Xiangyan Yuan and Fengxiang Zhai and Ru Zhang and Zhenxi Zhu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1001.4935},
year = {2015}
}
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Accepted Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics (RAA) 1 Latex file and 20 figures