  We investigate the relation between $C^{*}$, the model of sets constructible
using first order logic augmented with the "cofinality-$\omega$" quantifier,
and "short" sequences of measures - sequences of measures of order $1$, which
are shorter than their minimum. We show that certain core models for short
sequences of measures are contained in $C^{*}$; we compute $C^{*}$ in a model
of the form $L\left[\mathcal{U}\right]$ where $\mathcal{U}$ is a short sequence
of measures, and in models of the form
$L\left[\mathcal{U}\right]\left[G\right]$ where $G$ is generic for adding
Prikry sequences to some of the measurables of $\mathcal{U}$; and prove that if
there is an inner model with a short sequence of measures of order type $\chi$,
then there is such an inner model in $C^{*}$.
