The first release of the AST3-1 Point Source Catalogue from Dome A, Antarctica
International audience he three Antarctic Survey Telescopes (AST3) aim to carry out time-domain imaging survey at Dome A, Antarctica. The first of the three telescopes (AST3-1) was successfully deployed in 2012 January. AST3-1 is a 500 mm aperture modified Schmidt telescope with a 680 mm diameter pr...
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ftccsdartic:oai:HAL:hal-02097438v1 2023-05-15T13:37:28+02:00 The first release of the AST3-1 Point Source Catalogue from Dome A, Antarctica Ma, Bin Shang, Zhaohui Hu, Yi Hu, Keliang Liu, Qiang Ashley, Michael C.B. Cui, Xiangqun Du, Fujia Fan, Dongwei Feng, Longlong Huang, Fang Gu, Bozhong He, Boliang Ji, Tuo Li, Xiaoyan Li, Zhengyang Liu, Huigen Tian, Qiguo Tao, Charling Wang, Daxing Wang, Lifan Wang, Songhu Wang, Xiaofeng Wei, Peng Wu, Jianghua Xu, Lingzhe Yang, Shihai Yang, Ming Yang, Yi Yu, Ce Yuan, Xiangyan Zhou, Hongyan Zhang, Hui Zhang, Xueguang Zhang, Yi Zhao, Cheng Zhou, Jilin Zhu, Zong-Hong Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille (CPPM) Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) 2018 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02097438 https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty1392 en eng HAL CCSD Oxford University Press (OUP): Policy P - Oxford Open Option A info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/arxiv/1805.05566 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1093/mnras/sty1392 hal-02097438 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02097438 ARXIV: 1805.05566 doi:10.1093/mnras/sty1392 INSPIRE: 1729027 ISSN: 0035-8711 EISSN: 1365-2966 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02097438 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Oxford University Press (OUP): Policy P - Oxford Open Option A, 2018, 479 (1), pp.111-120. ⟨10.1093/mnras/sty1392⟩ [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph] info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2018 ftccsdartic https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty1392 2021-11-07T02:02:58Z International audience he three Antarctic Survey Telescopes (AST3) aim to carry out time-domain imaging survey at Dome A, Antarctica. The first of the three telescopes (AST3-1) was successfully deployed in 2012 January. AST3-1 is a 500 mm aperture modified Schmidt telescope with a 680 mm diameter primary mirror. AST3-1 is equipped with a SDSS i filter and a 10k × 10k frame transfer CCD camera, reduced to 5k × 10k by electronic shuttering, resulting in a 4.3 deg2 field of view. To verify the capability of AST3-1 for a variety of science goals, extensive commissioning was carried out between 2012 March and May. The commissioning included a survey covering 2000 deg2 as well as the entire Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. Frequent repeated images were made of the centre of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a selected exoplanet transit field, and fields including some Wolf–Rayet stars. Here, we present the data reduction and photometric measurements of the point sources observed by AST3-1. We have achieved a survey depth of 19.3 mag in 60 s exposures with 5 mmag precision in the light curves of bright stars. The facility achieves sub-mmag photometric precision under stable survey conditions, approaching its photon noise limit. These results demonstrate that AST3-1 at Dome A is extraordinarily competitive in time-domain astronomy, including both quick searches for faint transients and the detection of tiny transit signals Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica Archive ouverte HAL (Hyper Article en Ligne, CCSD - Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) Antarctic Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 479 1 111 120 |
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International audience he three Antarctic Survey Telescopes (AST3) aim to carry out time-domain imaging survey at Dome A, Antarctica. The first of the three telescopes (AST3-1) was successfully deployed in 2012 January. AST3-1 is a 500 mm aperture modified Schmidt telescope with a 680 mm diameter primary mirror. AST3-1 is equipped with a SDSS i filter and a 10k × 10k frame transfer CCD camera, reduced to 5k × 10k by electronic shuttering, resulting in a 4.3 deg2 field of view. To verify the capability of AST3-1 for a variety of science goals, extensive commissioning was carried out between 2012 March and May. The commissioning included a survey covering 2000 deg2 as well as the entire Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. Frequent repeated images were made of the centre of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a selected exoplanet transit field, and fields including some Wolf–Rayet stars. Here, we present the data reduction and photometric measurements of the point sources observed by AST3-1. We have achieved a survey depth of 19.3 mag in 60 s exposures with 5 mmag precision in the light curves of bright stars. The facility achieves sub-mmag photometric precision under stable survey conditions, approaching its photon noise limit. These results demonstrate that AST3-1 at Dome A is extraordinarily competitive in time-domain astronomy, including both quick searches for faint transients and the detection of tiny transit signals |
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Ma, Bin Shang, Zhaohui Hu, Yi Hu, Keliang Liu, Qiang Ashley, Michael C.B. Cui, Xiangqun Du, Fujia Fan, Dongwei Feng, Longlong Huang, Fang Gu, Bozhong He, Boliang Ji, Tuo Li, Xiaoyan Li, Zhengyang Liu, Huigen Tian, Qiguo Tao, Charling Wang, Daxing Wang, Lifan Wang, Songhu Wang, Xiaofeng Wei, Peng Wu, Jianghua Xu, Lingzhe Yang, Shihai Yang, Ming Yang, Yi Yu, Ce Yuan, Xiangyan Zhou, Hongyan Zhang, Hui Zhang, Xueguang Zhang, Yi Zhao, Cheng Zhou, Jilin Zhu, Zong-Hong |
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Ma, Bin Shang, Zhaohui Hu, Yi Hu, Keliang Liu, Qiang Ashley, Michael C.B. Cui, Xiangqun Du, Fujia Fan, Dongwei Feng, Longlong Huang, Fang Gu, Bozhong He, Boliang Ji, Tuo Li, Xiaoyan Li, Zhengyang Liu, Huigen Tian, Qiguo Tao, Charling Wang, Daxing Wang, Lifan Wang, Songhu Wang, Xiaofeng Wei, Peng Wu, Jianghua Xu, Lingzhe Yang, Shihai Yang, Ming Yang, Yi Yu, Ce Yuan, Xiangyan Zhou, Hongyan Zhang, Hui Zhang, Xueguang Zhang, Yi Zhao, Cheng Zhou, Jilin Zhu, Zong-Hong |
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The first release of the AST3-1 Point Source Catalogue from Dome A, Antarctica |
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The first release of the AST3-1 Point Source Catalogue from Dome A, Antarctica |
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