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The CHEOPS project has already produced a number of publications in the context of, or related to the project:

Simulations of exoplanets detection obtained with a high-contrast imaging instrument: CHEOPS Berton, Alessandro; Gratton, Raffaele G.; Feldt, Markus; Desidera, Silvano; Masciadri, Elena; Turatto, Massimo; Claudi, Riccardo U.; Piotto, Giampaolo; Pernechele, Claudio; Antichi, Jacopo 2004, Proc. SPIE 5490, 672

Simulations versus observations obtained with simultaneous differential imaging Berton, Alessandro; Kellner, Stefan; Feldt, Markus; Masciadri, Elena; Lenzen, Rainer; Brandner, Wolfgang; Hartung, Markus; Gratton, Raffaele G. 2004, Proc. SPIE, 5490, 586

Very low resolution disperser of CHEOPS NIR integral field spectrograph Claudi, Riccardo U.; Buson, Silvio; Desidera, Silvano; Turatto, Massimo; Gratton, Raffaele; Antichi, Jacopo 2004, SPIE, 5492, 1431

CHEOPS NIR IFS: exploring stars neighborhood spectroscopically Claudi, Riccardo U.; Turatto, Massimo; Gratton, Raffaele; Antichi, Jacopo; Buson, Silvio; Pernechele, Claudio; Desidera, Silvano; Baruffolo, Andrea; Lima, Jorge; Alcalą, Juan; Cascone, Enrico; Piotto, Gianpaolo; Ortolani, Sergio; Schmid, Hans Martin; Feldt, Markus; Neuhauser, R.; Waters, Rens; Berton, Alessandro; Bagnara, Paolo 2004, SPIE, 5492, 1351

Wavefront sensing through spatial filters: the case for coronographic, high-contrast AO systems Feldt, Markus; Costa, Joana B.; Stumpf, Micaela; Schmid, Hans-Martin; Berton, Alessandro; Hippler, Stefan; Stuik, Remko; Lima, Jorge 2004, Proc. SPIE, 5490, 1146

CHEOPS/ZIMPOL: a VLT instrument study for the polarimetric search of scattered light from extrasolar planets Gisler, Daniel; Schmid, Hans Martin; Thalmann, Christian; Povel, Hans Peter; Stenflo, Jan O.; Joos, Franco; Feldt, Markus; Lenzen, Rainer; Tinbergen, Jaap; Gratton, Raffaele; Stuik, Remko; Stam, Daphne M.; Brandner, Wolfgang; Hippler, Stefan; Turatto, Massimo; Neuhauser, R.; Dominik, Carsten; Hatzes, Artie; Henning, Thomas; Lima, Jorge; Quirrenbach, Andreas; Waters, L. B. F. M.; Wuchterl, Gunther; Zinnecker, Hans 2004, Proc. SPIE 5492, 463

Off-the-shelf real-time computers for next-generation adaptive optics Hippler, Stefan; Looze, Douglas P.; Gaessler, Wolfgang 2004, Proc.SPIE 5490, pp. 1402-1413

The science case of the CHEOPS planet finder for VLT Gratton, Raffaele; Feldt, Markus; Schmid, Hans Martin; Brandner, Wolfgang; Hippler, Stefan; Neuhauser, R.; Quirrenbach, Andreas; Desidera, Silvano; Turatto, Massimo; Stam, Daphne M. 2004, Proc. SPIE, 5492, 1010

Optimizing wavefront sensing for extreme AO Koehler, Rainer; Hippler, Stefan; Feldt, Markus; Gratton, Raffaele; Gisler, Daniel; Stuik, Remko; Lima, Jorge 2004, Proc. SPIE, 5490, 586

Modal selection using genetic optimization Looze, Douglas P.; Hippler, Stefan; Feldt, Markus, 2004, Proc. SPIE 5490, pp. 1450-1459

Scintillation effects on a high-contrast imaging instrument for a direct detection of exo-planets Masciadri, E.; Feldt, M.; Hippler,S. 2004, Proc. SPIE, 5490, 483

Scintillation Effects on a High-Contrast Imaging Instrument for Direct Extrasolar Planets' Detection Masciadri, E., Feldt, M., and Hippler, S. 2004, The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 613, Issue 1, pp. 572-579.

Using polarimetry to detect and characterize Jupiter-like extrasolar planets Stam, D. M.; Hovenier, J. W.; Waters, L. B. F. M 2004 A&A, 428, 663

CHEOPS: a second generation VLT instrument for the direct detection of exo-planets Claudi, R. U., Costa, J., Feldt, M., Gratton, R., Amorim, A., Henning, Th., Hippler, S., Neuhäuser, R., Pernechele, C., Turatto, M., Schmid, H. M., Walters, R., and Zinnecker, H. In: Second Eddington Workshop: Stellar structure and habitable planet finding, 9 - 11 April 2003, Palermo, Italy. Edited by F. Favata, S. Aigrain and A. Wilson. ESA SP-538, Noordwijk: ESA Publications Division, ISBN 92-9092-848-4, 2004, p. 301 - 304

A "Planet Finder" instrument for the ESO VLT Feldt, M., Turatto, M., Schmid, H. M., Waters, R., Neuhäuser, R., and Amorim, A. In: Proceedings of the Conference on Towards Other Earths: DARWIN/TPF and the Search for Extrasolar Terrestrial Planets, 22-25 April 2003, Heidelberg, Germany. Edited by M. Fridlund, T. Henning, compiled by H. Lacoste. ESA SP-539, Noordwijk, Netherlands: ESA Publications Division, ISBN 92-9092-849-2, 2003, p. 99 - 107

Polarization Spectra of Extrasolar Planets Stam D.M. DARWIN Workshop Heidelberg, 22-25 April 2003 2004, ESA Special Publication SP-539, in press

Extra-solar planet studies: the Italian contribution Gratton, R. G., Claudi, R., Desidera, S., Marzari, F., and Barbieri, M. Memorie della Societa Astronomica Italiana Supplement, v. 3, p. 24 (2003)

Can we really go for direct planet detection from the ground? Feldt M., Henning Th., Hippler S., Weiß R., Turatto M., Neuhäuser R., Hatzes A.P., Schmid H.M., Waters R., Puga E., Costa J. 2003, Proc SPIE 4860, 149

The Planet Finder Instrument: Proposal for a 2nd-Generation Instrument for the VLT Feldt M., Hippler S., Gratton R., Henning Th., Turatto M., Waters R., Quirrenbach A. 2003, Scientific Frontiers in Research in Extrasolar Planets, ASP Conf. Proc., Vol. 294, held 18-21 June 2002 at Carnegie Inst., Washington D.C., Edited by Drake Deming and Sara Seager.