Heike Rauer
PLATO Role: Principal Investigator Since 2013, Rauer has been Head of the instrument consortium for PLATO. She has been the…
Yearly Archives: 2018
Gas giants and icy planets
PLATO will address the following questions regarding gas and ice planets: Up to which orbital distance do we find inflated…
Planets orbiting intermediate mass stars
It is now well established that planets form within a few million years from the dusty, circumstellar disk of young…
Planets around giant stars
Several ground-based Doppler planet searches target sub-giant and giant stars instead of main-sequence stars. The number of planets known to…
Planets around post-RGB stars
To date not a single bona fide planet has been identified orbiting an isolated white dwarf (e.g. Hogan et al….
Circumbinary planets
Planets that orbit around both components of a stellar binary were suggested as favourable targets for transit surveys (Borucki 1984)…
Evolution of planetary systems
The ability to derive the age of planetary systems is one of the key assets of PLATO. The age of…
Planetary atmospheres
Numerous studies have been published on the use of wavelength-dependent primary transits and secondary eclipses to characterise the atmospheres of…
Characterising stellar-exoplanet environments
Transit observations of exoplanets around bright host stars, together with advanced numerical modelling techniques and known astrophysical parameters (such as…
PLATO STESCI Workshop II, Milazzo (Italy), 22-25 May 2018
Venue: Milazzo (Italy) Dates: 22-25 May 2018 more information on the the Workshop web site The registration/confirmation deadline is strictly set…
Detection of rings, moons, Trojans and comets
The combination of high-precision photometry, large number of planets, and well-characterised host stars that will be provided by PLATO will…
PLATO documentation and configuration meeting – 24 April 2018
When: 24 April 2018 Venue: Madrid, INTA Who: PLATO Payload Managers
Probing stellar structure and evolution by asteroseismology
Asteroseismology is the study of the global oscillations of stars (see Aerts et al. 2010, Chaplin & Miglio 2013). These oscillations…
Stellar parameters as key to exoplanet parameter accuracy
The main focus of the asteroseismology programme of PLATO will be to support exoplanet science by providing: stellar masses with…
Stellar models and evolution
With sufficiently good data, the asteroseismic determination of mass and radius can be essentially independent of stellar models. For other…
Stellar magnetohydrodynamics
All stars rotate and many exhibit complex surface magnetic fields and activity. Coupled with the presence of turbulent convective envelopes…
Complementary Science
In addition to its focus on relatively bright stars, one major advantage of PLATO over the CoRoT and Kepler space missions…
Postdoctoral Researcher on TRAPPIST project
Deadline: April 30, 2018 The Origins in Cosmology and Astrophysics (OrCA) group at the University of Liege (Belgium) invites applications…
SPECULOOS-South Instrument Scientist Postdoc position
Deadline: May 31, 2018 The Origins in Cosmology and Astrophysics (OrCA) group at the University of Liege (Belgium) invites applications…
Job opening for one 2-year post-doctoral position in theoretical stellar physics/MHD in Department of Astrophysics at CEA Saclay (France) in support of the ERC project SPIRE
Deadline: 20 May 2018 We invite application for one 2-year post-doctoral position in theoretical stellar physics/MHD in support of the…
Newsletter #25
Here is the 25th issue of the PLATO Newsletter. PLATO Newsletter 25
Announcement of Opportunity for Community Scientists in the PLATO mission
An announcement of opportunity for Community Scientists in the PLATO mission has been released by ESA on April 11 2018….
Madrid, 12-14 Mar 2018
Pictures taken during the “PLATO Week #6” held in Madrid on 12-14 Mar 2018
PLATO Week #6, Madrid, 13-15 March 2018
Venue: Madrid, CSIC HQs Dates: 13-15 March 2018 more information on the Go to the Meeting page at CSIC The…
Camera AIV Meeting, Munich 13-14 Feb 2018
13-14 Feb 2018, Munich, Germany The meeting is host by OHB.
ESA Books
PLATO DEFINITION STUDY REPORT (RED BOOK) Publication date: 04 April 2017 Page: 1-139 Year: 2017 Copyright: ESA Reference: ESA-SCI(2017)1 In…
Munich, 13-14 Feb 2018
Pictures taken during the “PLATO Payload MAIV meeting” held in Munich at OHB on 13-14 Feb 2018
Plato Week #5, Porto, 24-26 Oct 2017
24-26 October 2017, Porto, Portugal PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars (PLATO) is the third medium-class mission in ESA’s Cosmic…
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