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To identify long-period variable (LPV) stars in IC10 - the nearest starburst galaxy of the Local Group (LG) - we conducted an optical monitoring survey using the 2.5-m Isaac Newton Telescope (INT) with the wide-field camera (WFC) in the i-band and V-band from 2015 to 2017. We created a photometric catalog for 53,579 stars within the area of CCD4 of WFC ( �??�?�â?�??�?�ü
0.07 deg 2
corresponding to 13.5 kpc 2
at the distance of IC10), of which we classified 536 and 380 stars as long-period variable candidates (LPVs), mostly asymptotic giant branch stars (AGBs) and red supergiants (RSGs), within CCD4 and two half-light radii of IC10, respectively. By comparing our output catalog to the catalogs from Pan-STARRS, Spitzer Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope (HST), and carbon stars from the Canada-France-Hawai'i Telescope (CFHT) survey, we determined the success of our detection method. We recovered �??�?�â?�??�?�ü
73% of Spitzer's sources in our catalog and demonstrated that our survey successfully identified 43% of the variable stars found with Spitzer, and also retrieved 40% of the extremely dusty AGB stars among the Spitzer variables. In addition, we successfully identified �??�?�â?�??�?�ü
70% of HST variables in our catalog. Furthermore, we found all the confirmed LPVs that Gaia DR3 detected in IC10 among our identified LPVs. This paper is the first in a series on IC10, presenting the variable star survey methodology and the photometric catalog, available to the public through the Centre de Donn�???�??�?�ées Astronomiques de Strasbourg.
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