The First Release of the CSTAR
Publish Time:2010-03-30
The Chinese Small Telescope ARray (CSTAR) is deployed at Dome A in 2008 January by the twenty-fourth Chinese expedition team. CSTAR consists four 14.5cm optical telescopes, each with a different filter (g, r, i and open) and has a 4.5x4.5 sq. degree FOV. In 2008, CSTAR 1 performed almost flawlessly, acquiring more than 0.3 million i-band images for a total integration time of 1728 hr during 158 days of observations. CSTAR has a fixed pointing centered on the south celestial pole, all the sources were monitored continuously for several months. This first release contains 21845 light curve derived from its observation data in 2008.
· Data Access ·
♦Introduction♦
Keywords
CSTAR;photometry , catalog , light curve
Data Volume
1 tables
21845 rows
2862434442926 Bytes
Data Format
application/fits ,
application/csv ,
application/png
Sharing Method
Sharing Scope
DOI
CSTR
VO Identifier
ivo://China-VO/data/CSTAR/DR1
♦Contact Author♦
Author
BATC wide field survey group
Email
zhouxu(at)nao.cas.cn
♦Contact Publisher
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Email
support(at)china-vo.org
Phone
+86-10-64807973
Institution
National Astronomical Data Center
♦Tags♦
waveband
Optical
telescope or project
Chinese Small Telescope Array(CSTAR)
subject
Star and Interstellar Matter
Time domain astronomy
data type
Catalog Data
content level
Research