Planetary transit candidates in the CSTAR field: Analysis of the 2008 data
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2014
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Lawrence, J. S.
Wang, Songhu
Zhang, Hui
Zhou, Ji-Lin
Zhou, Xu
Yang, Ming
Bayliss, Daniel
Zhou, Guyin (George)
Wang, Lifan
Ashley, M. C. B.
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Institute of Physics Publishing
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The Chinese Small Telescope ARray (CSTAR) is a group of four identical, fully automated, static 14.5 cm telescopes. CSTAR is located at Dome A, Antarctica and covers 20 deg2 of sky around the South Celestial Pole. The installation is designed to provide high-cadence photometry for the purpose of monitoring the quality of the astronomical observing conditions at Dome A and detecting transiting exoplanets. CSTAR has been operational since 2008, and has taken a rich and high-precision photometric data set of 10,690 stars. In the first observing season, we obtained 291,911 qualified science frames with 20 s integrations in the i band. Photometric precision reaches 4 mmag at 20 s cadence at i = 7.5 and is 20 mmag at i = 12. Using robust detection methods, 10 promising exoplanet candidates were found. Four of these were found to be giants using spectroscopic follow-up. All of these transit candidates are presented here along with the discussion of their detailed properties as well as the follow-up observations.
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