Planet detection and characterisation of bulk parameters
Since the discovery of the first extrasolar planet orbiting a solar type star in 1995 (Mayor & Queloz 1995), just…
Since the discovery of the first extrasolar planet orbiting a solar type star in 1995 (Mayor & Queloz 1995), just…
A prime goal of PLATO will be to detect a large number of planets, down to the terrestrial regime in…
Habitability is defined as the potential of an environment to sustain life of any kind (e.g. Steele et al. 2006)….
PLATO will answer fundamental questions about planetary formation such as: What is the bulk density distribution of low-mass, terrestrial planets?…
One of the major findings of Kepler is the catalogue of multiple-planet transiting systems (see Lissauer et al. 2014). Multiple systems…
What can be learned from accurate radii and masses of terrestrial exoplanets, in spite of the limitations in observables compared…
PLATO will address the following questions regarding gas and ice planets: Up to which orbital distance do we find inflated…
It is now well established that planets form within a few million years from the dusty, circumstellar disk of young…
Several ground-based Doppler planet searches target sub-giant and giant stars instead of main-sequence stars. The number of planets known to…
To date not a single bona fide planet has been identified orbiting an isolated white dwarf (e.g. Hogan et al….
Planets that orbit around both components of a stellar binary were suggested as favourable targets for transit surveys (Borucki 1984)…
The ability to derive the age of planetary systems is one of the key assets of PLATO. The age of…
Numerous studies have been published on the use of wavelength-dependent primary transits and secondary eclipses to characterise the atmospheres of…
Transit observations of exoplanets around bright host stars, together with advanced numerical modelling techniques and known astrophysical parameters (such as…
The combination of high-precision photometry, large number of planets, and well-characterised host stars that will be provided by PLATO will…