CHEOPS Science Workshop and Open Time Workshop
Location: Schloss Seggau, Leibnitz, Austria
Date: 24-26 July 2017 (Science Workshop); 26-27 July 2017 (Open Time Workshop)
The CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite (CHEOPS) is the first ESA S-class mission, in partnership with Switzerland, and will be dedicated to search for transits by means of ultra-high precision photometry on bright stars already known to host planets. Targeting launch readiness at the end of 2018, the mission will have a nominal lifetime of 3.5 years with 20% of the observing time available to the General Community through an ESA-run Guest Observers Programme.
Registration has opened for two CHEOPS workshops that will be held at Schloss Seggau, near Leibnitz in southern Austria at the end of July 2017, with the objective of bringing together the community interested in the mission and its scientific exploitation:
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Participants are invited to submit contributions - oral or poster - on any scientific aspect relevant to the mission, with a deadline for abstract submission of 30 April 2017.
Bursaries are available to help both PhD students and early career postdocs attend the workshop.
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The deadline for registration for both workshops is 1 July 2017.
Further details on the workshops, including registration, can be found at the 5th CHEOPS Science Workshop and CHEOPS Open Time Workshop web pages.