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The PLATO Mission
Authors :
Rauer, Heike Aerts, Conny Cabrera, Juan Deleuil, Magali Erikson, Anders Gizon, Laurent Goupil, Mariejo Heras, Ana Lorenzo-Alvarez, Jose Marliani, Filippo Martin-Garcia, Cesar Mas-Hesse, J. Miguel O'Rourke, Laurence Osborn, Hugh Pagano, Isabella Piotto, Giampaolo Pollacco, Don Ragazzoni, Roberto Ramsay, Gavin Udry, Stéphane Appourchaux, Thierry Benz, Willy Brandeker, Alexis Güdel, Manuel Janot-Pacheco, Eduardo Kabath, Petr Kjeldsen, Hans Min, Michiel Santos, Nuno Smith, Alan Suarez, Juan-Carlos Werner, Stephanie C. Aboudan, Alessio Abreu, Manuel Acuña, Lorena Adams, Moritz Adibekyan, Vardan Affer, Laura Agneray, François Agnor, Craig Børsen-Koch, Victor Aguirre Ahmed, Saad Aigrain, Suzanne Al-Bahlawan, Ashraf Gil, M de los Angeles Alcacera Alei, Eleonora Alencar, Silvia Alexander, Richard Alfonso-Garzón, Julia Alibert, Yann Prieto, Carlos Allende Almeida, Leonardo Sobrino, Roi Alonso Altavilla, Giuseppe Althaus, Christian Trujillo, Luis Alonso Alvarez Amarsi, Anish Eiff, Matthias Ammler-von Amôres, Eduardo Andrade, Laerte Antoniadis-Karnavas, Alexandros António, Carlos del Moral, Beatriz Aparicio Appolloni, Matteo Arena, Claudio Armstrong, David Aliaga, Jose Aroca Asplund, Martin Audenaert, Jeroen Auricchio, Natalia Avelino, Pedro Baeke, Ann Baillié, Kevin Balado, Ana Balestra, Andrea Ball, Warrick Ballans, Herve Ballot, Jerome Barban, Caroline Barbary, Gaële Barbieri, Mauro Forteza, Sebastià Barceló Barker, Adrian Barklem, Paul Barnes, Sydney Navascues, David Barrado Barragan, Oscar Baruteau, Clément Basu, Sarbani Baudin, Frederic Baumeister, Philipp Bayliss, Daniel Bazot, Michael Beck, Paul G. Bedding, Tim Belkacem, Kevin Bellinger, Earl Benatti, Serena Benomar, Othman Bérard, Diane Bergemann, Maria Bergomi, Maria Bernardo, Pierre Biazzo, Katia Bignamini, Andrea Bigot, Lionel Billot, Nicolas Binet, Martin Biondi, David Biondi, Federico Birch, Aaron C. Bitsch, Bertram Ceballos, Paz Victoria Bluhm Bódi, Attila Bognár, Zsófia Boisse, Isabelle Bolmont, Emeline Bonanno, Alfio Bonavita, Mariangela Bonfanti, Andrea Bonfils, Xavier Bonito, Rosaria Bonomo, Aldo Stefano Börner, Anko Saikia, Sudeshna Boro Martín, Elisa Borreguero Borsa, Francesco Borsato, Luca Bossini, Diego Bouchy, Francois Boué, Gwenaël Boufleur, Rodrigo Boumier, Patrick Bourrier, Vincent Bowman, Dominic M. Bozzo, Enrico Bradley, Louisa Bray, John Bressan, Alessandro Breton, Sylvain Brienza, Daniele Brito, Ana Brogi, Matteo Brown, Beverly Brown, David Brun, Allan Sacha Bruno, Giovanni Bruns, Michael Buchhave, Lars A. Bugnet, Lisa Buldgen, Gaël Burgess, Patrick Busatta, Andrea Busso, Giorgia Buzasi, Derek Caballero, José A. Cabral, Alexandre Calderone, Flavia Cameron, Robert Cameron, Andrew Campante, Tiago Martins, Bruno Leonardo Canto Cara, Christophe Carone, Ludmila Carrasco, Josep Manel Casagrande, Luca Casewell, Sarah L. Cassisi, Santi Castellani, Marco Castro, Matthieu Catala, Claude Fernández, Irene Catalán Catelan, Márcio Cegla, Heather Cerruti, Chiara Cessa, Virginie Chadid, Merieme Chaplin, William Charpinet, Stephane Chiappini, Cristina Chiarucci, Simone Chiavassa, Andrea Chinellato, Simonetta Chirulli, Giovanni Christensen-Dalsgaard, Jorgen Church, Ross Claret, Antonio Clarke, Cathie Claudi, Riccardo Clermont, Lionel Coelho, Hugo Coelho, Joao Cogato, Fabrizio Colomé, Josep Condamin, Mathieu Conseil, Simon Corbard, Thierry Correia, Alexandre C. M. Corsaro, Enrico Cosentino, Rosario Costes, Jean Cottinelli, Andrea Covone, Giovanni Creevey, Orlagh L. Crida, Aurelien Csizmadia, Szilard Cunha, Margarida Curry, Patrick da Costa, Jefferson da Silva, Francys Dalal, Shweta Damasso, Mario Damiani, Cilia Damiani, Francesco Chagas, Maria Liduina das Davies, Melvyn Davies, Guy Davies, Ben Davison, Gary de Almeida, Leandro de Angeli, Francesca de Barros, Susana Cristina Cabral Leão, Izan de Castro de Freitas, Daniel Brito de Freitas, Marcia Cristina De Martino, Domitilla de Medeiros, José Renan de Paula, Luiz Alberto de Plaa, Jelle De Ridder, Joris Deal, Morgan Decin, Leen Deeg, Hans Degl'Innocenti, Scilla Deheuvels, Sebastien del Burgo, Carlos Del Sordo, Fabio Delgado-Mena, Elisa Demangeon, Olivier Denk, Tilmann Derekas, Aliz Desidera, Silvano Dexet, Marc Di Criscienzo, Marcella Di Giorgio, Anna Maria Di Mauro, Maria Pia Rial, Federico Jose Diaz Díaz-García, José-Javier Dima, Marco Dinuzzi, Giacomo Dionatos, Odysseas Distefano, Elisa Nascimento Jr., Jose-Dias do Domingo, Albert D'Orazi, Valentina Dorn, Caroline Doyle, Lauren Duarte, Elena Ducellier, Florent Dumaye, Luc Dumusque, Xavier Dupret, Marc-Antoine Eggenberger, Patrick Ehrenreich, David Eigmüller, Philipp Eising, Johannes Emilio, Marcelo Eriksson, Kjell Ermocida, Marco Giribaldi, Riano Isidoro Escate Eschen, Yoshi Estrela, Inês Evans, Dafydd Wyn Fabbian, Damian Fabrizio, Michele Faria, João Pedro Farina, Maria Farinato, Jacopo Feliz, Dax Feltzing, Sofia Fenouillet, Thomas Ferrari, Lorenza Ferraz-Mello, Sylvio Fialho, Fabio Fienga, Agnes Figueira, Pedro Fiori, Laura Flaccomio, Ettore Focardi, Mauro Foley, Steve Fontignie, Jean Ford, Dominic Fornazier, Karin Forveille, Thierry Fossati, Luca Franca, Rodrigo de Marca da Silva, Lucas Franco Frasca, Antonio Fridlund, Malcolm Furlan, Marco Gabler, Sarah-Maria Gaido, Marco Gallagher, Andrew Galli, Emanuele Garcia, Rafael A. Hernández, Antonio García Munoz, Antonio Garcia García-Vázquez, Hugo Haba, Rafael Garrido Gaulme, Patrick Gauthier, Nicolas Gehan, Charlotte Gent, Matthew Georgieva, Iskra Ghigo, Mauro Giana, Edoardo Gill, Samuel Girardi, Leo Winter, Silvia Giuliatti Giusi, Giovanni da Silva, João Gomes Zazo, Luis Jorge Gómez Gomez-Lopez, Juan Manuel Hernández, Jonay Isai González Murillo, Kevin Gonzalez Gorius, Nicolas Gouel, Pierre-Vincent Goulty, Duncan Granata, Valentina Grenfell, John Lee Grießbach, Denis Grolleau, Emmanuel Grouffal, Salomé Grziwa, Sascha Guarcello, Mario Giuseppe Gueguen, Loïc Guenther, Eike Wolf Guilhem, Terrasa Guillerot, Lucas Guiot, Pierre Guterman, Pascal Gutiérrez, Antonio Gutiérrez-Canales, Fernando Hagelberg, Janis Haldemann, Jonas Hall, Cassandra Handberg, Rasmus Harrison, Ian Harrison, Diana L. Hasiba, Johann Haswell, Carole A. Hatalova, Petra Hatzes, Artie Haywood, Raphaelle Hébrard, Guillaume Heckes, Frank Heiter, Ulrike Hekker, Saskia Heller, René Helling, Christiane Helminiak, Krzysztof Hemsley, Simon Heng, Kevin Hermans, Aline Hermes, JJ Torres, Nadia Hidalgo Hinkel, Natalie Hobbs, David Hodgkin, Simon Hofmann, Karl Hojjatpanah, Saeed Houdek, Günter Huber, Daniel Huesler, Joseph Hui-Bon-Hoa, Alain Huygen, Rik Huynh, Duc-Dat Iro, Nicolas Irwin, Jonathan Irwin, Mike Izidoro, André Jacquinod, Sophie Jannsen, Nicholas Emborg Janson, Markus Jeszenszky, Harald Jiang, Chen Mancebo, Antonio José Jimenez Jofre, Paula Johansen, Anders Johnston, Cole Jones, Geraint Kallinger, Thomas Kálmán, Szilárd Kanitz, Thomas Karjalainen, Marie Karjalainen, Raine Karoff, Christoffer Kawaler, Steven Kawata, Daisuke Keereman, Arnoud Keiderling, David Kennedy, Tom Kenworthy, Matthew Kerschbaum, Franz Kidger, Mark Kiefer, Flavien Kintziger, Christian Kislyakova, Kristina Kiss, László Klagyivik, Peter Klahr, Hubert Klevas, Jonas Kochukhov, Oleg Köhler, Ulrich Kolb, Ulrich Koncz, Alexander Korth, Judith Kostogryz, Nadiia Kovács, Gábor Kovács, József Kozhura, Oleg Krivova, Natalie Kučinskas, Arunas Kuhlemann, Ilyas Kupka, Friedrich Laauwen, Wouter Labiano, Alvaro Lagarde, Nadege Laget, Philippe Laky, Gunter Lam, Kristine Wai Fun Lambrechts, Michiel Lammer, Helmut Lanza, Antonino Francesco Lanzafame, Alessandro Martiz, Mariel Lares Laskar, Jacques Latter, Henrik Lavanant, Tony Lawrenson, Alastair Lazzoni, Cecilia Lebre, Agnes Lebreton, Yveline Etangs, Alain Lecavelier des Leinhardt, Zoe Leleu, Adrien Lendl, Monika Leto, Giuseppe Levillain, Yves Libert, Anne-Sophie Lichtenberg, Tim Ligi, Roxanne Lignieres, Francois Lillo-Box, Jorge Linsky, Jeffrey Liu, John Scige Loidolt, Dominik Longval, Yuying Lopes, Ilídio Lorenzani, Andrea Ludwig, Hans-Guenter Lund, Mikkel Lundkvist, Mia Sloth Luri, Xavier Maceroni, Carla Madden, Sean Madhusudhan, Nikku Maggio, Antonio Magliano, Christian Magrin, Demetrio Mahy, Laurent Maibaum, Olaf Malac-Allain, LeeRoy Malapert, Jean-Christophe Malavolta, Luca Maldonado, Jesus Mamonova, Elena Manchon, Louis Mann, Andrew Mantovan, Giacomo Marafatto, Luca Marconi, Marcella Mardling, Rosemary Marigo, Paola Marinoni, Silvia Marques, Érico Marques, Joao Pedro Marrese, Paola Maria Marshall, Douglas Perales, Silvia Martínez Mary, David Marzari, Francesco Masana, Eduard Mascher, Andrina Mathis, Stéphane Mathur, Savita Figueiredo, Ana Carolina Mattiuci Maxted, Pierre F. L. Mazeh, Tsevi Mazevet, Stephane Mazzei, Francesco McCormac, James McMillan, Paul Menou, Lucas Merle, Thibault Meru, Farzana Mesa, Dino Messina, Sergio Mészáros, Szabolcs Meunier, Nadége Meunier, Jean-Charles Micela, Giuseppina Michaelis, Harald Michel, Eric Michielsen, Mathias Michtchenko, Tatiana Miglio, Andrea Miguel, Yamila Milligan, David Mirouh, Giovanni Mitchell, Morgan Moedas, Nuno Molendini, Francesca Molnár, László Mombarg, Joey Montalban, Josefina Montalto, Marco Monteiro, Mário J. P. F. G. Morales, Juan Carlos Morales-Calderon, Maria Morbidelli, Alessandro Mordasini, Christoph Moreau, Chrystel Morel, Thierry Morello, Guiseppe Morin, Julien Mortier, Annelies Mosser, Benoît Mourard, Denis Mousis, Olivier Moutou, Claire Mowlavi, Nami Moya, Andrés Muehlmann, Prisca Muirhead, Philip Munari, Matteo Musella, Ilaria Mustill, Alexander James Nardetto, Nicolas Nardiello, Domenico Narita, Norio Nascimbeni, Valerio Nash, Anna Neiner, Coralie Nelson, Richard P. Nettelmann, Nadine Nicolini, Gianalfredo Nielsen, Martin Niemi, Sami-Matias Noack, Lena Noels-Grotsch, Arlette Noll, Anthony Norazman, Azib Norton, Andrew J. Nsamba, Benard Ofir, Aviv Ogilvie, Gordon Olander, Terese Olivetto, Christian Olofsson, Göran Ong, Joel Ortolani, Sergio Oshagh, Mahmoudreza Ottacher, Harald Ottensamer, Roland Ouazzani, Rhita-Maria Paardekooper, Sijme-Jan Pace, Emanuele Pajas, Miriam Palacios, Ana Palandri, Gaelle Palle, Enric Paproth, Carsten Parro, Vanderlei Parviainen, Hannu Granado, Javier Pascual Passegger, Vera Maria Pastor-Morales, Carmen Pätzold, Martin Pedersen, May Gade Hidalgo, David Pena Pepe, Francesco Pereira, Filipe Persson, Carina M. Pertenais, Martin Peter, Gisbert Petit, Antoine C. Petit, Pascal Pezzuto, Stefano Pichierri, Gabriele Pietrinferni, Adriano Pinheiro, Fernando Pinsonneault, Marc Plachy, Emese Plasson, Philippe Plez, Bertrand Poppenhaeger, Katja Poretti, Ennio Portaluri, Elisa Portell, Jordi de Mello, Gustavo Frederico Porto Poyatos, Julien Pozuelos, Francisco J. Moroni, Pier Giorgio Prada Pricopi, Dumitru Prisinzano, Loredana Quade, Matthias Quirrenbach160, ndreas Reina6, Julio Arturo Rabanal Soares, Maria Cristina Rabello Raimondo, Gabriella Rainer, Monica Rodón, Jose Ramón Ramón-Ballesta, Alejandro Zapata, Gonzalo Ramos Rätz, Stefanie Rauterberg, Christoph Redman, Bob Redmer, Ronald Reese, Daniel Regibo, Sara Reiners, Ansgar Reinhold, Timo Renie, Christian Ribas, Ignasi Ribeiro, Sergio Ricciardi, Thiago Pereira Rice, Ken Richard, Olivier Riello, Marco Rieutord, Michel Ripepi, Vincenzo Rixon, Guy Rockstein, Steve Rodríguez, María Teresa Rodrigo Díaz, Luisa Fernanda Rodríguez Garcia, Juan Pablo Rodriguez Rodriguez-Gomez, Julio Roehlly, Yannick Roig, Fernando Rojas-Ayala, Bárbara Rolf, Tobias Rørsted, Jakob Lysgaard Rosado, Hugo Rosotti, Giovanni Roth, Olivier Roth, Markus Rousseau, Alex Roxburgh, Ian Roy, Fabrice Royer, Pierre Ruane, Kirk Mastropasqua, Sergio Rufini de Galarreta, Claudia Ruiz Russi, Andrea Saar, Steven Saillenfest, Melaine Salaris, Maurizio Salmon, Sebastien Saltas, Ippocratis Samadi, Réza Samadi, Aunia Samra, Dominic da Silva, Tiago Sanches Carrasco, Miguel Andrés Sánchez Santerne, Alexandre Santoli, Francesco Santos, Ângela R. G. Mesa, Rosario Sanz Sarro, Luis Manuel Scandariato, Gaetano Schäfer, Martin Schlafly, Edward Schmider, François-Xavier Schneider, Jean Schou, Jesper Schunker, Hannah Schwarzkopf, Gabriel Jörg Serenelli, Aldo Seynaeve, Dries Shan, Yutong Shapiro, Alexander Shipman, Russel Sicilia, Daniela Sanmartin, Maria Angeles Sierra Sigot, Axelle Silliman, Kyle Silvotti, Roberto Simon, Attila E. Napoli, Ricardo Simoyama Skarka, Marek Smalley, Barry Smiljanic, Rodolfo Smit, Samuel Smith, Alexis Smith, Leigh Snellen, Ignas Sódor, Ádám Sohl, Frank Solanki, Sami K. Sortino, Francesca Sousa, Sérgio Southworth, John Souto, Diogo Sozzetti, Alessandro Stamatellos, Dimitris Stassun, Keivan Steller, Manfred Stello, Dennis Stelzer, Beate Stiebeler, Ulrike Stokholm, Amalie Storelvmo, Trude Strassmeier, Klaus Strøm, Paul Anthony Strugarek, Antoine Sulis, Sophia Švanda, Michal Szabados, László Szabó, Róbert Szabó, Gyula M. Szuszkiewicz, Ewa Talens, Geert Jan Teti, Daniele Theisen, Tom Thévenin, Frédéric Thoul, Anne Tiphene, Didier Titz-Weider, Ruth Tkachenko, Andrew Tomecki, Daniel Tonfat, Jorge Tosi, Nicola Trampedach, Regner Traven, Gregor Triaud, Amaury Trønnes, Reidar Tsantaki, Maria Tschentscher, Matthias Turin, Arnaud Tvaruzka, Adam Ulmer, Bernd Ulmer-Moll, Solène Ulusoy, Ceren Umbriaco, Gabriele Valencia, Diana Valentini, Marica Valio, Adriana Guijarro, Ángel Luis Valverde Van Eylen, Vincent Van Grootel, Valerie van Kempen, Tim A. Van Reeth, Timothy Van Zelst, Iris Vandenbussche, Bart Vasiliou, Konstantinos Vasilyev, Valeriy de Mascarenhas, David Vaz Vazan, Allona Nunez, Marina Vela Velloso, Eduardo Nunes Ventura, Rita Ventura, Paolo Venturini, Julia Trallero, Isabel Vera Veras, Dimitri Verdugo, Eva Verma, Kuldeep Vibert, Didier Martinez, Tobias Vicanek Vida, Krisztián Vigan, Arthur Villacorta, Antonio Villaver, Eva Aparicio, Marcos Villaverde Viotto, Valentina Vorobyov, Eduard Vorontsov, Sergey Wagner, Frank W. Walloschek, Thomas Walton, Nicholas Walton, Dave Wang, Haiyang Waters, Rens Watson, Christopher Wedemeyer, Sven Weeks, Angharad Weingril, Jörg Weiss, Annita Wendler, Belinda West, Richard Westerdorff, Karsten Westphal, Pierre-Amaury Wheatley, Peter White, Tim Whittaker, Amadou Wickhusen, Kai Wilson, Thomas Windsor, James Winter, Othon Winther, Mark Lykke Winton, Alistair Witteck, Ulrike Witzke, Veronika Woitke, Peter Wolter, David Wuchterl, Günther Wyatt, Mark Yang, Dan Yu, Jie Sanchez, Ricardo Zanmar Osorio, María Rosa Zapatero Zechmeister, Mathias Zhou, Yixiao Ziemke, Claas Zwintz, Konstanze
Publication Year :
2024
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.
Details
Database :
arXiv
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.2406.05447
Document Type :
Working Paper