Including National Astronomical Observatories Assistant researcher, South American astronomical center visiting scholar Wang Lingzhi and Antarctic astronomical center Dr. Ma Bin, 18 researchers through the analysis of photometric data of the first Antarctic survey telescope AST3-1 recent 8 days observations, detected 560 variable stars, 339 of these are previously unknown variables. The variable star catalog published by this work is included in the international (variable) star catalog Vizier, AAVSO, and provides a rich sample for domestic and international source researchers. It provides high quality continuous photometric data for the follow-up study of the variable star. This research has been published in the Astronomical Journal. 

AST3-1 is the second-generation wide-field optical photometric telescope dedicated to time-domain astronomy at Dome A, Antarctica. Here, we present the results of an i-band images survey from AST3-1 toward one Galactic disk field. Based on time-series photometry of 92,583 stars, 560 variable stars were detected with i magnitude ≤16.5 mag during eight days of observations; 339 of these are previously unknown variables. We tentatively classify the 560 variables as 285 eclipsing binaries (EW, EB, and EA), 27 pulsating variable stars (δ Scuti, γ Doradus, δ Cephei variable, and RR Lyrae stars), and 248 other types of variables (unclassified periodic, multiperiodic, and aperiodic variable stars). Of the eclipsing binaries, 34 show O'Connell effects. One of the aperiodic variables shows a plateau light curve and another variable shows a secondary maximum after peak brightness. We also detected a complex binary system with an RS CVn-like light-curve morphology; this object is being followed-up spectroscopically using the Gemini South telescope.