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

• 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: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: arXiv 2010
• Subjects: Astrophysics of Galaxies astro-ph.GA; Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics astro-ph.IM; FOS Physical sciences; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Plato; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1001.4941; https://arxiv.org/abs/1001.4941

In 2008 January the 24th Chinese expedition team successfully deployed the Chinese Small Telescope ARray (CSTAR) to DomeA, the highest point on the Antarctic plateau. CSTAR consists of four 14.5cm optical telescopes, each with a different filter (g, r, i and open) and has a 4.5degree x 4.5degree fie...