Ten Camera Flight Models ready for integration: names unveiled
How many earth-like planets orbit the habitable zone of solar-like stars? How planets form and evolve in their planetary systems?…
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The PLATO Steering Committee visits ESTEC during the Structural Model test campaign
The PLATO Steering Committee had the opportunity to visit the ESA ESTEC facility during a test campaign of the Satellite…
The SWT visits ESTEC during the Structural Model test campaign
The PLATO SWT had the opportunity to visit the ESA ESTEC facility during a test campaign of the Satellite Structural…
First PLATO Long-duration Observation Phase (LOP) field selected
The Science Working Team has selected the first PLATO Long-duration Observation Phase (LOP) field. The name of the field is LOPS2 and its centre coordinates in the equatorial, galactic, and ecliptic reference frames are given in the Table below. LOPS2 field centre coordinates α [hms] 06:21:14.5 ICRS (J2000) δ [dms] -47:53:13 ICRS (J2000) l [deg] 255.9375 IAU 1958 b [deg]…
Postdoc position under the project “PLATO Fasi B/C” at the Observatory of Catania
The Osservatorio Astrofisico di Catania, part of the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), invites applications for a Post Doctoral fellowship…
Postdoc position on exoplanet research at the University of Padova
The Physics and Astronomy Department of the University of Padova is accepting applications for a postdoc position on exoplanetary science…
Nobel Prize in Physics to M. Mayor and D. Queloz
Congratulations to Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz “for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star.”
PLATO focal plane assembly (FPA) preliminary design review hold in Madrid, June 2019
Between 17th June till 19th June, the preliminary design review co-location meeting of the FPA took place at INTA (Instituto…
PLATO and the search for planets in the habitable zone
Download PLATO and the search for planets in the habitable zone as pdf document.
TESS and PLATO at a glance
With the imminent launch of the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), it is useful to remind ourselves of the similarities…
Telescope Optical Unit Prototype
The Telescope Optical Unit Prototype is the second TOU model built following the TOU BreadBoard. The prototype optics consist in…
Michiel Min
Role: PMC Board Member Work in progress
Hans Kjeldsen
Role: PMC Board Member Work in progress
Filippo Marliani
Role: ESA Project Manager, Chair of the PEST work in progress
Claudia Dreyer
Role: PMC Manager Support/PMC Configuration Manager Work in progress
TOU Team
The Telescope Optical Units are under responsibility of Italy, with contribution from Switzerland and Sweden. Italy is in charge for…
Anders Erikson
Role: PMC Manager, PCOT Manager work in progress
Anna Maria Di Giorgio
Role: ICU SW PA Manager Dr. Anna Di Giorgio is a senior researcher at the Italian Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica…
ICU Team
The Instrument Control Unit (ICU) is under responsibility of Italy, with a contribution from Austria. INAF Rosario Cosentino, Project Manager…
Payload Module
The PLATO Payload comprises the cameras including focal planes and related electronics as well as the on-board data processing system….
Milazzo (Italy), 22-25 May 2018
Pictures taken during the “STESCI Workshop II, ” held in Milazzo (Italy) 22-25 May 2018
Performance
The main scientific goals of PLATO concern the detection and characterisation of extrasolar planets for their radius, mass, and age….
Instrument Performance
PLATO aims at obtaining high precision, continuous time series of photometric measurements of a large sample of stars. The drivers…
PLATO ESP2018: Stellar variability and its effect on the characterisation of small planets, 24-26 Oct 2018, Marseille
This is the first of a series of thematic PLATO Exoplanet workshops that aim to bring together observers and theorists…
Juan Carlos Suárez
Role: Member of the PSM, Member of the PLATO Board PhD in Astrophysics and Space Science by Paris 7 (Denis…
Science Performance
The anticipated high accuracy of planet parameters for PLATO demands a correspondingly high accuracy of stellar parameters. Planetary radii are…
Planet Yield
One of the mission design drivers for PLATO is assuring the detectability of planets with the size of the Earth…
PLATO Measurement Concept
PLATO will achieve its science objectives by performing: Planet detection and radius determination from photometric transits; Determination of planet masses…
Summary
The PLATO space mission (PLAnetary Transits and Oscillation of stars) will detect terrestrial exoplanets at orbits up to the habitable…
The transit method
PLATO will detect and characterise exoplanets with the transit method. It will perform long uninterrupted high precision photometric monitoring…
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