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20162026
most citedThe CHEOPS mission

292 citations · 575 across the 26 of their papers we have counts for

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26 papers

astro-ph.IM2026

RISTRETTO: Assembly and Testing of the Seven-spaxel, High-resolution, Diffraction-limited Spectrograph

Leonie Hoerner, Bruno Chazelas, Nathanaël Restori +24

The RISTRETTO project aims at the direct detection of the reflected light of extra-solar planets to measure albedos and detect possible biosignatures, using the high-contrast / hig…

astro-ph.IM2026

DD4AO control law for RISTRETTO: robustness, real-time performance, and on-sky validation with PAPYRUS

Isaac Dinis, Muskan Schinde, Nicolas Blind +11

This study presents DD4AO progress towards its implementation in the RISTRETTO instrument. DD4AO is a novel frequency-domain, data-driven controller for adaptive optics that levera…

astro-ph.EP2026

NIRPS tightens the mass estimate of GJ 3090 b and detects a planet near the stellar rotation period

Pierrot Lamontagne, Drew Weisserman, Charles Cadieux +148

We present an updated characterization of the planetary system orbiting the nearby M2 dwarf GJ 3090 (TOI-177; pc), based on new high-precision radial velocity (RV) observa…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 5 cited

NIRPS and TESS reveal a peculiar system around the M dwarf TOI-756: A transiting sub-Neptune and a cold eccentric giant

Léna Parc, François Bouchy, Neil J. Cook +148

The Near InfraRed Planet Searcher (NIRPS) joined HARPS on the 3.6-m ESO telescope at La Silla Observatory in April 2023, dedicating part of its Guaranteed Time Observations (GTO) p…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 2 cited

Quantifying thermal water dissociation in the dayside photosphere of WASP-121 b using NIRPS

Luc Bazinet, Romain Allart, Björn Benneke +119

The intense stellar irradiation of ultra-hot Jupiters results in some of the most extreme atmospheric environments in the planetary regime. On their daysides, temperatures can be s…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 29 cited

NIRPS joining HARPS at ESO 3.6 m. On-sky performance and science objectives

Francois Bouchy, Rene Doyon, Francesco Pepe +131

The Near-InfraRed Planet Searcher (NIRPS) is a high-resolution, high-stability near-infrared (NIR) spectrograph equipped with an AO system. Installed on the ESO 3.6-m telescope, it…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 11 cited

Diving into the planetary system of Proxima with NIRPS -- Breaking the metre per second barrier in the infrared

Alejandro Suárez Mascareño, Étienne Artigau, Lucile Mignon +138

We obtained 420 high-resolution spectra of Proxima, over 159 nights, using the Near Infra Red Planet Searcher (NIRPS). We derived 149 nightly binned radial velocity measurements wi…

astro-ph.EP2025

Blind search for activity-sensitive lines in the near-infrared using HARPS and NIRPS observations of Proxima and Gl 581

João Gomes da Silva, Elisa Delgado-Mena, Nuno C. Santos +145

Stellar activity variability is one of the main obstacles to the detection of Earth-like planets using the RV method. The aim of this work is to measure the effect of activity in t…

astro-ph.IM2025

The X-ray Integral Field Unit at the end of the Athena reformulation phase

Philippe Peille, Didier Barret, Edoardo Cucchetti +279

The Athena mission entered a redefinition phase in July 2022, driven by the imperative to reduce the mission cost at completion for the European Space Agency below an acceptable ta…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 2 cited

RISTRETTO: reflected-light exoplanet spectroscopy at the diffraction limit of the VLT

Christophe Lovis, Nicolas Blind, Bruno Chazelas +28

RISTRETTO is a visible high-resolution spectrograph fed by an extreme adaptive optics (AO) system, to be proposed as a visitor instrument on ESO VLT. The main science goal of RISTR…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 2 cited

ANDES, the high resolution spectrograph for the ELT: science goals, project overview and future developments

A. Marconi, M. Abreu, V. Adibekyan +286

The first generation of ELT instruments includes an optical-infrared high-resolution spectrograph, indicated as ELT-HIRES and recently christened ANDES (ArmazoNes high Dispersion E…

astro-ph.IM2024

RISTRETTO: Manufacturing of a single-mode visible high resolution spectrograph

Bruno Chazelas, Christophe Lovis, Nicolas Blind +13

The Spectrograph of the RISTRETTO instrument is now currently being manufactured. RISTETTO is an instrument designed to detect and characterize the reflected light of nearby exopla…

astro-ph.IM2024

ANDES, the high-resolution spectrograph for the ELT: RIZ Spectrograph preliminary design

Bruno Chazelas, Yevgeniy Ivanisenko, Audrey Lanotte +44

We present here the preliminary design of the RIZ module, one of the visible spectrographs of the ANDES instrument 1. It is a fiber-fed high-resolution, high-stability spectrograph…

astro-ph.IM2024

NIRPS first light and early science: breaking the 1 m/s RV precision barrier at infrared wavelengths

Étienne Artigau, François Bouchy, René Doyon +111

The Near-InfraRed Planet Searcher or NIRPS is a precision radial velocity spectrograph developed through collaborative efforts among laboratories in Switzerland, Canada, Brazil, Fr…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 1 cited

The Near-Infrared Gatherer of Helium Transits (NIGHT)

Casper Farret Jentink, Francesco Pepe, Christophe Lovis +10

This paper provides a comprehensive overview of the subsystems of the NIGHT instrument. NIGHT (the Near Infrared Gatherer of Helium Transits) is a narrowband, high-resolution spect…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 1 cited

RISTRETTO: Seven Spaxels Single Mode Spectrograph Design

Bruno Chazelas, Christophe Lovis, Nicolas Blind +6

The RISTRETTO project is aiming to build an instrument that will detect the reflected light from close-by exoplanet. It is a two stage instrument: An extreme AO system in the visib…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 16 cited

RISTRETTO: high-resolution spectroscopy at the diffraction limit of the VLT

Christophe Lovis, Nicolas Blind, Bruno Chazelas +14

RISTRETTO is a visible high-resolution spectrograph fed by an extreme adaptive optics (XAO) system, to be proposed as a visitor instrument on ESO VLT. The main science goal of RIST…

astro-ph.IM2022

RISTRETTO: coronagraph and AO designs enabling High Dispersion Coronagraphy at 2 lambda/D

N. Blind, B. Chazelas, J. Kühn +13

RISTRETTO is the evolution of the original idea of coupling the VLT instruments SPHERE and ESPRESSO, aiming at High Dispersion Coronagraphy. RISTRETTO is a visitor instrument that…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 2 cited

The Athena X-ray Integral Field Unit: a consolidated design for the system requirement review of the preliminary definition phase

Didier Barret, Vincent Albouys, Jan-Willem den Herder +296

The Athena X-ray Integral Unit (X-IFU) is the high resolution X-ray spectrometer, studied since 2015 for flying in the mid-30s on the Athena space X-ray Observatory, a versatile ob…

astro-ph.IM2022

NIRPS Front-End: Design, performance, and lessons learned

N. Blind, U. Conod, A. de Meideros +13

NIRPS (Near Infra-Red Planet Searcher) is an AO-assisted and fiber-fed spectrograph for high precision radial velocity measurements in the YJH-bands. NIRPS also has the specificity…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 82 cited

CHEOPS observations of the HD 108236 planetary system: A fifth planet, improved ephemerides, and planetary radii

A. Bonfanti, L. Delrez, M. J. Hooton +106

The detection of a super-Earth and three mini-Neptunes transiting the bright ( = 9.2 mag) star HD 108236 (also known as TOI-1233) was recently reported on the basis of TESS and…

astro-ph.IM2020

KalAO the swift adaptive optics imager on 1.2m Euler Swiss telescope in La Silla, Chile

Janis Hagelberg, Nathanaël Restori, François Wildi +6

KalAO is a natural guide star adaptive optics (AO) imager to be installed on the second Nasmyth focus of the 1.2m Euler Swiss telescope in La Silla, Chile. The initial design of th…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 109 cited

The hot dayside and asymmetric transit of WASP-189b seen by CHEOPS

M. Lendl, Sz. Csizmadia, A. Deline +102

The CHEOPS space mission dedicated to exoplanet follow-up was launched in December 2019, equipped with the capacity to perform photometric measurements at the 20 ppm level. As CHEO…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 292 cited

The CHEOPS mission

Willy Benz, Christopher Broeg, Andrea Fortier +107

The CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite (CHEOPS) was selected in 2012, as the first small mission in the ESA Science Programme and successfully launched in December 2019. CHEOPS is…