Exoplanets in the Antarctic Sky. I. The First Data Release of AST3-II (CHESPA) and New Found Variables within the Southern CVZ of TESS

• Published in: The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
• Main Authors: Zhang, Hui, Yu, Zhouyi, Liang, Ensi, Yang, Ming, Ashley, Michael C.B., Cui, Xiangqun, Du, Fujia, Fu, Jianning, Gong, Xuefei, Gu, Bozhong, Hu, Yi, Jiang, Peng, Liu, Huigen, Lawrence, Jon, Liu, Qiang, Li, Xiaoyan, Li, Zhengyang, Ma, Bin, Mould, Jeremy, Shang, Zhaohui, Suntzeff, Nicholas B., Tao, Charling, Tian, Qiguo, Tinney, C.G., Uddin, Syed A., Wang, Lifan, Wang, Songhu, Wang, Xiaofeng, Wei, Peng, Wright, Duncan, Wu, Xuefeng, Wittenmyer, Robert A., Xu, Lingzhe, Yang, Shi-Hai, Yu, Ce, Yuan, Xiangyan, Zheng, Jessica, Zhou, Hongyan, Zhou, Ji-Lin, Zhu, Zhenxi
• Other Authors: 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)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2019
• Subjects: [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]; [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det]; Antarctic; Austral; Saunders; The Antarctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-02017057; https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/aaec0c

International audience Located at Dome A, the highest point of the Antarctic plateau, the ChineseKunlun station is considered to be one of the best ground-based photometricsites because of its extremely cold, dry, and stable atmosphere(Saunders et al.2009). A target can be monitored from there for o...