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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.