The First Release of the CSTAR Point Source Catalog from Dome A, Antarctica

• Published in: Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
• Main Authors: Zhou, Xu, Fan, Zhou, Jiang, Zhaoji, Ashley, M. C. B., Cui, Xiangqun, Feng, LongLong, Gong, Xuefei, Hu, Jingyao, Kulesa, C. A., Lawrence, J. S., Liu, Genrong, Luong-Van, D. M., Ma, Jun, Moore, A. M., Qin, Weijia, Shang, Zhaohui, Storey, J. W. V., Sun, Bo, Travouillon, T., Walker, C. K., Wang, Jiali, Wang, Lifan, Wu, Jianghua, Wu, Zhenyu, Xia, Lirong, Yan, Jun, Yang, Ji, Yang, Huigen, Yuan, Xiangyan, York, D., Zhang, Zhanhai, Zhu, Zhenxi
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2010
• Subjects: Antarc*; Antarctic; Antarctica; Australian Antarctic Division; International Polar Year; Polar Research Institute of China
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1086/651526

In 2008 January the twenty-fourth Chinese expedition team successfully deployed the Chinese Small Telescope ARray (CSTAR) to Dome A, the highest point on the Antarctic plateau. CSTAR consists of four 14.5 cm optical telescopes, each with a different filter (g, r, i, and open) and has a 4.5° × 4.5Â...