ExoClock Working Groups

During the course of the project, a number of ideas that came from the participants, have been evolved to active working groups. The scopes of the working gropus are beyond the main goal of the project and we do our best to support them, while the main coordination is done by the ExoClock participants and partners.

Current working groups:

• CMOS WG
  Calibrating and testing the performance of CMOS detector for transit observations.
• Synchronous Observations WG
  Organising simultaneous observations of transits from different locations.
• Multi-colour Observations WG
  Observing transits at different wavelengths with multiple filters.

Working groups starting in 2022-2023:

• Education WG
  ExoClock in the classroom! Developing and delivering student activities.
• Light-curve analysis WG
  Cleaning transits light-curves with advanced techniques (coding skills are necessary!).

Interested in participating in one of the Working Groups?

CMOS working group

As the use of CMOS cameras among the exoplanet community (and not only!) is increasing, members of the ExoClock community have prepared a testing campaign for these new tools! If you already have or you plan to get one CMOS camera, the document here will give you a way to test and calibrate it. While the initial focus is around exoplanet observations, we believe that this document will be helpful to other projects, too. We will be grateful if you could share with us any feedback you might have on the document and any results from testing your equipment.

Download CMOS testing document

Below you can find two test runs on the QHY 268 Mono camera, conducted by Gianluca Rossi and Robert Lines.
QHY268M_Gianluca_Rossi.pdf QHY268M_Robert_Lines.pdf