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- Workshop on Atmosphere Science in the Context of CHEOPS, TESS, K2 and PLATO (0)
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- PLATO Week #1, July 2016 at KU Leuven (0)
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- PLATO Week #4, Jun 20-22 2017, Albanova Univ., Stockholm (0)
- PLATO Mission Conference 2017, Warwick, 5-7 Sep 2017 (0)
- Plato Week #5, Porto, 24-26 Oct 2017 (0)
- Camera AIV Meeting, Munich 13-14 Feb 2018 (0)
- PLATO Week #6, Madrid, 13-15 March 2018 (0)
- PLATO documentation and configuration meeting – 24 April 2018 (0)
- PLATO STESCI Workshop II, Milazzo (Italy), 22-25 May 2018 (0)
- PLATO ESP2018: Stellar variability and its effect on the characterisation of small planets, 24-26 Oct 2018, Marseille (0)
- PLATO Week #7, Cambridge, 5-7 December 2018 (0)
- PLATO Atmosphere Workshop, 4-5 Feb 2019, DLR Adlershof (Berlin) (0)
- PLATO Limb-Darkening Meeting #1, 26-27 Feb 2019, Granada (0)
- 5ème atelier PLATO/France: Synergies PLATO/ARIEL, 26-27 Mar 2019 Bordeaux (France) (0)
- PLATO Week #8, Graz, 15-17 April 2019 (0)
- PLATO Input Catalogue Workshop, 24-26 Sep 2019, Padua (0)
- PLATO ESP2019: Single, shallow and strange transits, 2-4 September 2019, University of Warwick (0)
- PLATO focal plane assembly (FPA) preliminary design review hold in Madrid, June 2019 (0)
- PLATO Week #9, 9-11 Oct 2019, Marseille (0)
- PLATO Stellar Science Workshop #3, 19-22 Nov 2019, Barcelona (0)
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News
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- Announcement of Opportunity for Community Scientists in the PLATO mission (0)
- 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 (0)
- SPECULOOS-South Instrument Scientist Postdoc position (0)
- Postdoctoral Researcher on TRAPPIST project (0)
- TESS and PLATO at a glance (0)
- Postdoctoral Researcher in Exoplanets at IA, Porto – Ref: IA2018-15-CTTI (0)
- Postdoctoral Researcher in Exoplanets at IA, Porto – Ref: IA2018-16-CTTI (0)
- Postdoctoral Researcher in Exoplanets at IA, Porto – Ref: IA2018-19-CTTI (0)
- Postdoctoral Researcher in Exoplanets at IA, Porto – Ref: IA2018-14-CTTI (0)
- Postdoctoral Researcher in Asteroseismology at IA, Porto – Ref: IA2018-17-CTTI (0)
- Postdoctoral Researcher in Asteroseismology at IA, Porto – Ref: IA2018-20-CTTI (0)
- Researcher position at INAF – Catania to work on PLATO (0)
- PLATO data scientist position open at the IoA, Cambridge (0)
- PLATO Database Software Developer position open at the MPS, Göttingen (0)
- Management of the PLATO Characterization and Operations Team (PCOT): job position open at DLR, Berlin (0)
- PLATO and the search for planets in the habitable zone (0)
- Research Fellow in Astrophysics (Extrasolar Planetary Science) at St. Andrews University, Scotland – Ref. AR2194HM (0)
- PLATO Database Software Developer position open at the MPS, Göttingen (PDC-DB-sciprog) (0)
- PLATO Database Software Developer position open at the MPS, Göttingen (PDC-DB-swdev) (0)
- Delivery of first detectors for PLATO’s exoplanet mission (0)
- Post-doctoral position at Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM) (0)
- PLATO Embedded Software Engineer position open at the Mauá Institute of Technology (IMT), São Paulo (Brazil) (0)
- PLATO LEGO model (0)
- PLATO Engineer for Data Processing position open at LESIA – Observatoire de Paris (0)
- PLATO Associate Professor in Exoplanets position open at MSSL – UCL (0)
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- Catania, 11 June 2014 (0)
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- Stockholm, 20-22 June 2017 (0)
- Padova, 4 July 2017 (0)
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- Noordwijkerhout, 13-14 Sep 2017 (0)
- Porto, 24-26 Oct 2017 (0)
- Padova, 7 Nov 2017 (0)
- Munich, 13-14 Feb 2018 (0)
- Madrid, 12-14 Mar 2018 (0)
- Milazzo (Italy), 22-25 May 2018 (0)
Planetary Science
- Detection of rings, moons, Trojans and comets (0)
- Characterising stellar-exoplanet environments (0)
- Planetary atmospheres (0)
- Evolution of planetary systems (0)
- Circumbinary planets (0)
- Planets around post-RGB stars (0)
- Planets around giant stars (0)
- Planets orbiting intermediate mass stars (0)
- Gas giants and icy planets (0)
- Terrestrial Planets (0)
- Multiple Planet Systems (0)
- Testing Planet Formation (0)
- Habitability of planets around solar-like stars (0)
- PLATO study planets where they form (0)
- Planet detection and characterisation of bulk parameters (0)
PLATO in depth
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PLATO Meetings
- PLATO Science Conference, Berlin, 24-25 Feb 2011 (0)
- PLATO TOU Team Meeting, Catania 28 Feb – 1 Mar 2011 (0)
- PLATO Science Team & PLATO Mission Consortium Board Meeting (0)
- PMC Board Meeting in Berlin (0)
- PMC Board Meeting – Berlin (0)
- PMC Extended PSPM Meeting – Berlin (0)
- PLATO 2.0 Science Workshop (0)
- PLATO 2.0 Pre Kick-off Payload (0)
- TOU Team meeting (0)
- PLATO Phase B1 KOM, Berlin, 16-17 July 2014 (0)
- Planet Formation Theory and Dynamics in the PLATO Era (0)
- PLATO Science Meeting in Taormina, Italy – 3-5 Dec 2014 (0)
- PLATO Payload Meeting in Munich (0)
- Workshop on Atmosphere Science in the Context of CHEOPS, TESS, K2 and PLATO (0)
- PLATO Payload Meeting, Berlin 15-17 July 2015 (0)
- PLATO Payload SRR KICK-OFF Meeting (0)
- Payload SRR Colocation Meeting (0)
- PLATO Performance Team Meeting (0)
- PLATO TOU Team Meeting (0)
- 5th PLATO Payload Progress Meeting (0)
- PLATO WP120 2016 (0)
- PAYLOAD phase B2 MAIV meeting (0)
- PLATOSIM workshop (0)
- PLATO Week #1, July 2016 at KU Leuven (0)
- PLATO Week #2, 8-10 Nov 2016, ASI, Rome (0)
- PLATO Week #3, 13-15 Mar 2017, Göttingen (0)
- PLATO Week #4, Jun 20-22 2017, Albanova Univ., Stockholm (0)
- PLATO Mission Conference 2017, Warwick, 5-7 Sep 2017 (0)
- Plato Week #5, Porto, 24-26 Oct 2017 (0)
- Camera AIV Meeting, Munich 13-14 Feb 2018 (0)
- PLATO Week #6, Madrid, 13-15 March 2018 (0)
- PLATO documentation and configuration meeting – 24 April 2018 (0)
- PLATO STESCI Workshop II, Milazzo (Italy), 22-25 May 2018 (0)
- PLATO ESP2018: Stellar variability and its effect on the characterisation of small planets, 24-26 Oct 2018, Marseille (0)
- PLATO Week #7, Cambridge, 5-7 December 2018 (0)
- PLATO Atmosphere Workshop, 4-5 Feb 2019, DLR Adlershof (Berlin) (0)
- PLATO Limb-Darkening Meeting #1, 26-27 Feb 2019, Granada (0)
- 5ème atelier PLATO/France: Synergies PLATO/ARIEL, 26-27 Mar 2019 Bordeaux (France) (0)
- PLATO Week #8, Graz, 15-17 April 2019 (0)
- PLATO Input Catalogue Workshop, 24-26 Sep 2019, Padua (0)
- PLATO ESP2019: Single, shallow and strange transits, 2-4 September 2019, University of Warwick (0)
- PLATO focal plane assembly (FPA) preliminary design review hold in Madrid, June 2019 (0)
- PLATO Week #9, 9-11 Oct 2019, Marseille (0)
- PLATO Stellar Science Workshop #3, 19-22 Nov 2019, Barcelona (0)
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Publications
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Rendering
- PLATO satellite – Airbus DS model (0)
- PLATO satellite – OHB model (0)
- PLATO satellite – TAS model (0)
Science
- PLATO’s long-term legacy (0)
- Complementary Science (0)
- Stellar magnetohydrodynamics (0)
- Stellar models and evolution (0)
- Stellar parameters as key to exoplanet parameter accuracy (0)
- Probing stellar structure and evolution by asteroseismology (0)
- Detection of rings, moons, Trojans and comets (0)
- Characterising stellar-exoplanet environments (0)
- Planetary atmospheres (0)
- Evolution of planetary systems (0)
- Circumbinary planets (0)
- Planets around post-RGB stars (0)
- Planets around giant stars (0)
- Planets orbiting intermediate mass stars (0)
- Gas giants and icy planets (0)
- Terrestrial Planets (0)
- Multiple Planet Systems (0)
- Science (0)
- Testing Planet Formation (0)
- Habitability of planets around solar-like stars (0)
- PLATO study planets where they form (0)
- Planet detection and characterisation of bulk parameters (0)
- Science Objectives (0)
- Observation gaps (0)
- Wavelength and colour information (0)
- Derived Scientific Requirements (0)
- Top scientific requirements (0)
- TESS and PLATO at a glance (0)
- PLATO and the search for planets in the habitable zone (0)
Science Objectives
- PLATO’s long-term legacy (0)
- Complementary Science (0)
- Stellar magnetohydrodynamics (0)
- Stellar models and evolution (0)
- Stellar parameters as key to exoplanet parameter accuracy (0)
- Probing stellar structure and evolution by asteroseismology (0)
- Detection of rings, moons, Trojans and comets (0)
- Characterising stellar-exoplanet environments (0)
- Planetary atmospheres (0)
- Evolution of planetary systems (0)
- Circumbinary planets (0)
- Planets around post-RGB stars (0)
- Planets around giant stars (0)
- Planets orbiting intermediate mass stars (0)
- Gas giants and icy planets (0)
- Terrestrial Planets (0)
- Multiple Planet Systems (0)
- Testing Planet Formation (0)
- Habitability of planets around solar-like stars (0)
- PLATO study planets where they form (0)
- Planet detection and characterisation of bulk parameters (0)
Science Requirements
- Observation gaps (0)
- Wavelength and colour information (0)
- Derived Scientific Requirements (0)
- Top scientific requirements (0)
Stellar Science
- Stellar magnetohydrodynamics (0)
- Stellar models and evolution (0)
- Stellar parameters as key to exoplanet parameter accuracy (0)
- Probing stellar structure and evolution by asteroseismology (0)
The PLATO Way
- Asteroseismology (0)
- The radial velocity method (0)
- The transit method (0)
- PLATO Measurement Concept (0)
