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<blockquote data-quote="Channel Hopper" data-source="post: 1087177" data-attributes="member: 175144"><p>All fettling done, now to work</p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong><em>CHEOPS surpasses the requirements</em></strong></span></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>To verify this, the team focused on a star known as HD 88111. The star is located in the Hydra constellation, some 175 light years away from Earth, and it is not known to host planets. CHEOPS took an image of the star every 30 seconds for 47 consecutive hours (see Figure 1). Every image was carefully analyzed, initially using a specialized automatic software package, and subsequently by the team members, to determine in each image the brightness of the star as accurately as possible. The team had expected the brightness of the star to change during the period of observation due to a variety of effects, such as other stars in the field of view, the tiny jitter motion of the satellite, or the impact of cosmic ray hits on the detector.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>The results of the 5,640 photos taken by CHEOPS over 47 hours are shown in Figure 2 as a “light curve”. The curve depicts the change over time in the brightness measurements from all the images, showing a root-mean-square scatter of 0.0015% (15 parts-per-million). “The light curve measured by CHEOPS was pleasingly flat. The space telescope easily surpasses the requirement for being able to measure brightness to a precision of 0.002% (20 parts-per-million),” explains Christopher Broeg, Mission Manager for the CHEOPS mission at the University of Bern.</em></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.unibe.ch/news/media_news/media_relations_e/media_releases/2020/media_releases_2020/cheops_space_telescope_ready_for_scientific_operation/index_eng.html[/URL]</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://cheops.unibe.ch/[/URL]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Channel Hopper, post: 1087177, member: 175144"] All fettling done, now to work [SIZE=6][B][I]CHEOPS surpasses the requirements[/I][/B][/SIZE] [I] To verify this, the team focused on a star known as HD 88111. The star is located in the Hydra constellation, some 175 light years away from Earth, and it is not known to host planets. CHEOPS took an image of the star every 30 seconds for 47 consecutive hours (see Figure 1). Every image was carefully analyzed, initially using a specialized automatic software package, and subsequently by the team members, to determine in each image the brightness of the star as accurately as possible. The team had expected the brightness of the star to change during the period of observation due to a variety of effects, such as other stars in the field of view, the tiny jitter motion of the satellite, or the impact of cosmic ray hits on the detector. The results of the 5,640 photos taken by CHEOPS over 47 hours are shown in Figure 2 as a “light curve”. The curve depicts the change over time in the brightness measurements from all the images, showing a root-mean-square scatter of 0.0015% (15 parts-per-million). “The light curve measured by CHEOPS was pleasingly flat. The space telescope easily surpasses the requirement for being able to measure brightness to a precision of 0.002% (20 parts-per-million),” explains Christopher Broeg, Mission Manager for the CHEOPS mission at the University of Bern.[/I] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.unibe.ch/news/media_news/media_relations_e/media_releases/2020/media_releases_2020/cheops_space_telescope_ready_for_scientific_operation/index_eng.html[/URL] [URL unfurl="true"]https://cheops.unibe.ch/[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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