Habitability of planets around solar-like stars
Habitability is defined as the potential of an environment to sustain life of any kind (e.g. Steele et al. 2006)….
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Testing Planet Formation
PLATO will answer fundamental questions about planetary formation such as: What is the bulk density distribution of low-mass, terrestrial planets?…
Science
PLATO will explore the diversity of planetary system by accurately determining their bulk properties, by constraining planet formation models, and…
PLATO in depth
The PLATO space mission (PLAnetary Transits and Oscillation of stars) will detect terrestrial exoplanets at orbits up to the habitable zone…
Multiple Planet Systems
One of the major findings of Kepler is the catalogue of multiple-planet transiting systems (see Lissauer et al. 2014). Multiple systems…
Newsletter #26
Here is the 26th issue of the PLATO Newsletter. PLATO Newsletter 26
Terrestrial Planets
What can be learned from accurate radii and masses of terrestrial exoplanets, in spite of the limitations in observables compared…
Eduardo Janot-Pacheco
Role: Member of the PSM, Member of the PLATO Board work in progress
Robert Szabo
Role: Member of the PSM, Member of the PLATO PMC Board work in progress
Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard
Role: Member of the PSM, Member of the PLATO Board work in progress
Manuel Guedel
Role: Member of the PLATO Board, Member of the PSM (Lead of WPs in Exoplanet Science and Complementary Science) work…
Nuno Santos
Role: Member of the PSM, Member of the PLATO Board Nuno C. Santos graduated in Physics (1996, Univ. of Lisbon)….
Willy Benz
Role: TOU STRUCT Instrument Scientist, Member of the PLATO PMC Board work in progress
Thierry Appourchaux
Role: Member of the PLATO Board work in progress
Marie-Jo Goupil
Role: Member of the PSWT work in progress
Ana Heras
Role: ESA Project Scientist, Chair of the PSWT work in progress
Miguel Mas-Hesse
Role: Member of the PSWT, member of the PMC Board Miguel Mas Hesse, born in Madrid on January 21, 1961,…
Alan Smith
Role: Member of the PMC Board work in progress
Alexis Brandeker
Role: Project Manager of the Fast camera filters, member of the PMC Board work in progress
Laurent Gizon
Role: Coordinator of the PDC, member of the PSWT, member of the PMC Board Born on 26 January 1970 in…
Magali Deleuil
Role: member of the PSWT, member of the PMC Board work in progress
Isabella Pagano
Graduated in Physics in 1990 at the University of Catania, where she received her PhD in 1994. In 1998-99, thanks…
Roberto Ragazzoni
Role: Member of the PSWT, TOU Instrument Scientist After graduating in Astronomy in 1990 with 110/110 cum laude at the…
Conny Aerts
Role: Coordinator of “Complementary Science” in the PSM, auxiliary science cases coordination and member of the PSWT Prof. Conny Aerts (Msc…
Giampaolo Piotto
Role: Coordinator of the “Targets/Field Characterisation & Selection” PSM team, member of the PSWT Born in 1962, Giampaolo Piotto had…
Don Pollacco
Role: PLATO Science Management coordinator, member of the PSWT Currently a Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Warwick, previously…
Stéphane Udry
Role: Coordinator for the PLATO follow-up inside the PSM, member of the PSWT work in progress
Claude Catala
Role: PLATO Mission Consortium Lead (2007-2013) Born in 1958, graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique with a Ph.D in astrophysics,Claude Catala,…
Heike Rauer
PLATO Role: Principal Investigator Since 2013, Rauer has been Head of the instrument consortium for PLATO. She has been the…
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…
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