APPROVED AO-2 PROGRAMMES

25 February 2021:  The second Announcement of Opportunity (AO2) for the CHEOPS Guest Observers Programme came out on 4 November 2020, and closed approximately 4 weeks later on 1 December 2020. The CHEOPS Time Allocation Committee (TAC) met on the 2-3 February 2021.

Based on the recommendations made by the TAC, the Director of Science has awarded observing time on CHEOPS to the proposals listed in the table below. 9 programmes have been awarded observing time on CHEOPS, covering a total of 638.1 orbits. The number of orbits that have been awarded is below what had been foreseen to be allocated for this first call - details of how it will be possible to apply for the remaining orbits will be announced in coming months.

Targets that are part of these programmes have been added to the Reserved Target List and cannot be included in observing programmes of other scientists until the AO-2 observations have been completed.

Principal Investigators of proposals that have been awarded time will be contacted by email, and are required to complete and submit observation requests at their earliest convenience  Guidelines on how to prepare observation requests can be found in the document at this link.

Key to table:  EP - Exoplanet Science; SP – Stellar Physics; Other – Other topics.