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The ESA PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars (PLATO) mission is designed to detect terrestrial planets in the habitable zones of solar-type stars. Owing to telemetry constraints, the selection of PLATO targets must be performed in…
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M. Montalto , G. Piotto , P. M. Marrese , L. Prisinzano , S. Marinoni , V. Granata , J. Cabrera , V. Nascimbeni , S. Desidera , V. Adibekyan , S. Ortolani , E. Alei , C. Aerts , G. Altavilla , K. Belkacem , S. Benatti , A. Börner , M. Deleuil , M. Fabrizio , L. Gizon , M. J. Goupil , M. Günther , A. M. Heras , D. Magrin , L. Malavolta , J. M. Mas-Hesse , I. Pagano , C. Paproth , D. Pollacco , R. Ragazzoni , G. Ramsay , H. Rauer , S. Udry
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The ESA's PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of Stars (PLATO) mission aims to detect planets orbiting around dwarfs and subgiant stars with spectral type F5 or later, including M-dwarfs. The PLATO Input Catalogue (PIC) contains all targets…
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Detections of transiting planets from the upcoming PLATO mission are expected to face significant contamination from contaminating eclipsing binaries, resulting in false positives. To counter this, a ground-based programme to acquire…
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Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics
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The PLATO mission is scheduled for launch in December 2026. It is an ESA M-class mission designed to find small planets around bright stars via the transit technique. The light curves it obtains will be wonderful for other science goals,…
In its long-duration observation phase, the PLATO satellite will observe two non-overlapping fields for a total of 4 yr. The exact duration of each pointing will be determined 2 yr before launch. Previous estimates of PLATO's yield of…
Due to be launched late 2026, the PLATO mission will bring the study of main-sequence solar-type and low-mass stars into a new era. In particular, PLATO will provide the community with a stellar sample with solar-type oscillations and…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
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The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and the upcoming PLATO mission (PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars) represent two space-based missions with complementary objectives in the field of exoplanet science. While TESS…
Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics
2024-01-19
Christian Magliano , Giovanni Covone , Valerio Nascimbeni , Laura Inno , Jose I. Vines , Veselin Kostov , Stefano Fiscale , Valentina Granata , Marco Montalto , Isabella Pagano , Giampaolo Piotto , Vito Saggese
Context. The PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars (PLATO) mission will observe the same area of the sky continuously for at least two years in an effort to detect transit signals of an Earth-like planet orbiting a solar-like star.…
Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics
2024-10-29
A. F. Krenn , M. Lendl , S. Sulis , M. Deleuil , S. J. Hofmeister , N. Jannsen , L. Fossati , J. De Ridder , D. Seynaeve , R. Jarolim , A. M. Veronig
PLATO will begin observing stars in its Southern Field (LOPS2) after its launch in late 2026. By this time, TESS will have observed the stars in LOPS2 for at least four years. We find that by 2025, on average each star in the PLATO field…
Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics
2024-10-29
Yoshi Nike Emilia Eschen , Daniel Bayliss , Thomas G. Wilson , Michelle Kunimoto , Ingrid Pelisoli , Toby Rodel
PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars (PLATO) is the ESA M3 space mission dedicated to detect and characterise transiting exoplanets including information from the asteroseismic properties of their stellar hosts. The uninterrupted…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2026-04-09
N. Jannsen , J. De Ridder , D. Seynaeve , S. Regibo , R. Huygen , P. Royer , C. Paproth , D. Grießbach , R. Samadi , D. R. Reese , M. Pertenais , E. Grolleau , R. Heller , S. M. Niemi , J. Cabrera , A. Börner , S. Aigrain , J. McCormac , P. Verhoeve , P. Astier , N. Kutrowski , B. Vandenbussche , A. Tkachenko , C. Aerts
The PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars (PLATO) mission is expected to launch in January 2027. A total of 8\% of its data rate will be dedicated to complementary science targets selected from approved Guest Observer proposals. We…
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics
2026-04-15
Mykyta Kliapets , Pablo Huijse , Jeroen Audenaert , Andrew Tkachenko , Marek Skarka , Paul F. X. Gregory , Dominic M. Bowman , Simon J. Murphy , Poojan Agrawal , József M. Benkő , Hannah Brinkman , Nicholas Jannsen , Yoshi Nike Emilia Eschen , Allison Eto , Dario J. Fritzewski , Alex Kemp , Viktor Khalack , Gang Li , Ricardo Ochoa-Armenta , Inês Rolo , Nena Scheller , Rose S. Stanley , Keegan Thomson-Paressant , Emese Plachy , Vincent Vanlaer , Mathijs Vanrespaille , Jasmine Vrancken , Haotian Wang , Yian Xia , George R. Ricker , Conny Aerts
The PLATO mission is scheduled for launch early 2027. In this paper we present an overview of the performance drivers for the mission at the time where all flight models of the cameras have been tested and integrated on the optical bench.…
Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics
2026-04-07
Juan Cabrera , Heike Rauer , Reza Samadi , Valerio Nascimbeni , Anko Boerner , Denis Grießbach , Carsten Paproth , Martin Pertenaıs , Sami-M. Niemi , Szilard Csizmadia , Asier Abreu , Conny Aerts , Suzanne Aigrain , Matthias Ammler-von Eiff , Beatriz Aparicio del Moral , Thierry Appourchaux , David J. Armstrong , Ann Baeke , Gabor G. Balazs , Kevin Belkacem , Aaron Birch , Paz Bluhm , Tobias Boenke , Fabrice Boquet , Sam Bowling , David J. A. Brown , Claude Catala , William J. Chaplin , Margarida S. Cunha , Cilia Daminani , Guy R. Davies , Jeanne Davoult , Francesca De Angeli , Joris De Ridder , Magali Deleuil , Jean-Michel Desert , Jose Javier Diaz Garcia , Anna M. Di Giorgio , Lauren Doyle , Billy Edwards , Philipp Eigmueller , Johannes Eising , Anders Erikson , Yoshi Emilia Nike Eschen , Lorenza Ferrari , Dominic C. Ford , Hugo Garcia Vazquez , Laurent Gizon , Juan Manuel Gomez Lopez , Nicolas Gorius , Marie-jo Goupil , Valentina Granata , John Lee Grenfell , Emmanuel Grolleau , Sascha Grziwa , Tristan Guillot , Diana L. Harrison , Rene Heller , Ana M. Heras , Simon T. Hodgkin , Rik Huygen , Nicholas Jannsen , David Kappel , Peter Klagyivik , Alexander Koncz , Diana Kossakowska , Alvaro Labiano , Kristine Lam , Antonino Francesco Lanza , Monika Lendl , Yves Levillain , Francisco A. Lobon Villanueva , Demetrio Magrin , Luca Malavolta , Silvia Marinoni , Paola Marrese , Cesar Martin Garcia , Miguel Mas Hesse , Pierre Maxted , James McCormac , Andrea Miglio , Marco Montalto , Thierry Morel , Alvaro Morena , Andres Moya , Matteo Munari , Martin B. Nielsen , Rhita-Maria Ouazzani , Isabella Pagano , Carmen Pastor Morales , Gisbert Peter , Jordan Philidet , Giampaolo Piotto , Philippe Plasson , Don Pollacco , Elena Puga , Roberto Ragazzoni , Gonzalo Ramos Zapata , Sara Regibo , Guy T. Rixon , Nicolas Robles Muñoz , Julio Rodriguez Gomez , Pierre Royer , Miguel Andres Sanchez Carrasco , Rosario Sanz Mesa , Gabriel Schwarzkopf , Dries Seynaeve , Alan Smith , Alexis M. S. Smith , Leigh C. Smith , Sophia Sulis , Geert Jan J. Talens , Ruth Titz-Weider , Stephane Udry , Bart Vandenbussche , Ivan Valtchanov , Peter Verhoeve , Dave Walton , Nicholas A. Walton , Thomas G. Wilson , Ulrike Witteck , David Wolter , Claas Ziemke , Konstanze Zwintz
The Planetary Transits and Oscillations of stars mission (PLATO) will allow us to measure surface rotation and monitor photometric activity of tens of thousands of main sequence solar-type and subgiant stars. This paper is the first of a…
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics
2024-07-08
S. N. Breton , A. F Lanza , S. Messina , I. Pagano , L. Bugnet , E. Corsaro , R. A. García , S. Mathur , A. R. G Santos , S. Aigrain , L. Amard , A. S. Brun , L. Degott , Q. Noraz , D. B. Palakkatharappil , E. Panetier , A. Strugarek , K. Belkacem , M. -J Goupil , R. M. Ouazzani , J. Philidet , C. Renié , O. Roth
The PLATO mission is scheduled for launch in 2026. This study aims to estimate the number of exoplanets that PLATO can detect as a function of planetary size and period, stellar brightness, and observing strategy options. Deviations from…
Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics
2023-07-25
F. Matuszewski , N. Nettelmann , J. Cabrera , A. Börner , H. Rauer
For the upcoming PLAnetary Transits and Oscillation of stars (PLATO) satellite mission, a large number of target stars are required to yield a statistically significant number of planet transits. Locating the centres of the long duration…
Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics
2022-11-30
J. C. Bray , U. Kolb , P. Rowden , Robert Farmer , A. Boerner , O. Kozhura