The PLATO Mission
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
2024-11-19 v2 Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Abstract
PLATO (PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars) is ESA's M3 mission designed to detect and characterise extrasolar planets and perform asteroseismic monitoring of a large number of stars. PLATO will detect small planets (down to <2 R_(Earth)) around bright stars (<11 mag), including terrestrial planets in the habitable zone of solar-like stars. With the complement of radial velocity observations from the ground, planets will be characterised for their radius, mass, and age with high accuracy (5 %, 10 %, 10 % for an Earth-Sun combination respectively). PLATO will provide us with a large-scale catalogue of well-characterised small planets up to intermediate orbital periods, relevant for a meaningful comparison to planet formation theories and to better understand planet evolution. It will make possible comparative exoplanetology to place our Solar System planets in a broader context. In parallel, PLATO will study (host) stars using asteroseismology, allowing us to determine the stellar properties with high accuracy, substantially enhancing our knowledge of stellar structure and evolution. The payload instrument consists of 26 cameras with 12cm aperture each. For at least four years, the mission will perform high-precision photometric measurements. Here we review the science objectives, present PLATO's target samples and fields, provide an overview of expected core science performance as well as a description of the instrument and the mission profile at the beginning of the serial production of the flight cameras. PLATO is scheduled for a launch date end 2026. This overview therefore provides a summary of the mission to the community in preparation of the upcoming operational phases.
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@article{arxiv.2406.05447,
title = {The PLATO Mission},
author = {Heike Rauer and Conny Aerts and Juan Cabrera and Magali Deleuil and Anders Erikson and Laurent Gizon and Mariejo Goupil and Ana Heras and Jose Lorenzo-Alvarez and Filippo Marliani and César Martin-Garcia and J. Miguel Mas-Hesse and Laurence O'Rourke and Hugh Osborn and Isabella Pagano and Giampaolo Piotto and Don Pollacco and Roberto Ragazzoni and Gavin Ramsay and Stéphane Udry and Thierry Appourchaux and Willy Benz and Alexis Brandeker and Manuel Güdel and Eduardo Janot-Pacheco and Petr Kabath and Hans Kjeldsen and Michiel Min and Nuno Santos and Alan Smith and Juan-Carlos Suarez and Stephanie C. Werner and Alessio Aboudan and Manuel Abreu and Lorena Acu a and Moritz Adams and Vardan Adibekyan and Laura Affer and François Agneray and Craig Agnor and Victor Aguirre Børsen-Koch and Saad Ahmed and Suzanne Aigrain and Ashraf Al-Bahlawan and M de los Angeles Alcacera Gil and Eleonora Alei and Silvia Alencar and Richard Alexander and Julia Alfonso-Garzón and Yann Alibert and Carlos Allende Prieto and Leonardo Almeida and Roi Alonso Sobrino and Giuseppe Altavilla and Christian Althaus and Luis Alonso Alvarez Trujillo and Anish Amarsi and Matthias Ammler-von Eiff and Eduardo Amôres and Laerte Andrade and Alexandros Antoniadis-Karnavas and Carlos António and Beatriz Aparicio del Moral and Matteo Appolloni and Claudio Arena and David Armstrong and Jose Aroca Aliaga and Martin Asplund and Jeroen Audenaert and Natalia Auricchio and Pedro Avelino and Ann Baeke and Kevin Baillié and Ana Balado and Pau Ballber Balagueró and Andrea Balestra and Warrick Ball and Herve Ballans and Jerome Ballot and Caroline Barban and Gaële Barbary and Mauro Barbieri and Sebasti Barceló Forteza and Adrian Barker and Paul Barklem and Sydney Barnes and David Barrado Navascues and Oscar Barragan and Clément Baruteau and Sarbani Basu and Frederic Baudin and Philipp Baumeister and Daniel Bayliss and Michael Bazot and Paul G. Beck and Tim Bedding and Kevin Belkacem and Earl Bellinger and Serena Benatti and Othman Benomar and Diane Bérard and Maria Bergemann and Maria Bergomi and Pierre Bernardo and Katia Biazzo and Andrea Bignamini and Lionel Bigot and Nicolas Billot and Martin Binet and David Biondi and Federico Biondi and Aaron C. Birch and Bertram Bitsch and Paz Victoria Bluhm Ceballos and Attila Bódi and Zsófia Bognár and Isabelle Boisse and Emeline Bolmont and Alfio Bonanno and Mariangela Bonavita and Andrea Bonfanti and Xavier Bonfils and Rosaria Bonito and Aldo Stefano Bonomo and Anko Börner and Sudeshna Boro Saikia and Elisa Borreguero Martín and Francesco Borsa and Luca Borsato and Diego Bossini and Francois Bouchy and Gwenaël Boué and Rodrigo Boufleur and Patrick Boumier and Vincent Bourrier and Dominic M. Bowman and Enrico Bozzo and Louisa Bradley and John Bray and Alessandro Bressan and Sylvain Breton and Daniele Brienza and Ana Brito and Matteo Brogi and Beverly Brown and David J. A. 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journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.05447},
year = {2024}
}