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Complementary Science

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• Main Electronics Unit (MEU) and Data Processing Units (N-DPU) (0)

FactSheets

• TESS and PLATO at a glance (0)
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Ground Segment

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Legacy

• PLATO’s long-term legacy (0)

Meeting on Exoplanets

• PLATO Mission Conference 2017, Warwick, 5-7 Sep 2017 (0)

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)
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• PMC Board Meeting – Berlin (0)
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• PLATO 2.0 Science Workshop (0)
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• 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)
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• 5th PLATO Payload Progress Meeting (0)
• PLATO WP120 2016 (0)
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• 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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News

• PLATO 2.0 Science Workshop in Jul 2013 (0)
• PLATO has been selected as M3 (0)
• Job offer at MPSSR (0)
• 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)
• PLATO Database Software Developer position open at the MPS, Göttingen (PDC-DB-swdev) (0)
• PLATO Database Software Developer position open at the MPS, Göttingen (PDC-DB-sciprog) (0)

Newsletter

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• PLATO focal plane assembly (FPA) preliminary design review hold in Madrid, June 2019 (0)

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Payload Models

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Performance

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Pictures

• PLATO satellite – TAS model (0)
• PLATO Week #4, Stockholm, Jun 2017 (0)
• PLATO Mission Conference, Warwick, Sep 2017 (0)

Pictures from Meetings

• TOU & System PLATO Meeting, 25 Sep 2008 (0)
• Rome, 29 January 2009 (0)
• PLATO Simulation Meeting, Leuven, 19 February 2009 (0)
• ESTEC, 27 January 2009 (0)
• ESTEC, PPLC-ESA Team Meeting – 27 Feb 2009 (0)
• Milan, 6 March 2009 (0)
• TOU Meeting – Milan, 6 March 2009 (0)
• PLATO Thermal Meeting – Paris 17.03.2009 (0)
• TOU Meeting, 18 Nov 2008 (0)
• ESTEC, 29-31 July 2013 (0)
• Berlin, 6-7 May 2014 (0)
• Padova, 5 June 2014 (0)
• Catania, 11 June 2014 (0)
• Berlin, 16-17 July 2014 (0)
• Monaco, September 15 2014 (0)
• Padova, 17 September 2014 (0)
• Padova, December 16 2014 (0)
• PLATO-Italia – RA1 & TOU Meeting (0)
• Rome, 8-10 November 2016 (0)
• Stockholm, 20-22 June 2017 (0)
• Padova, 4 July 2017 (0)
• Berlin, 12-13 July 2017 (0)
• Warwick, 5-7 Sep 2017 (0)
• 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)
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• 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

• PLATO in depth (0)

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)

PLATO People

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• Isabella Pagano (0)
• Magali Deleuil (0)
• Laurent Gizon (0)
• Alexis Brandeker (0)
• Alan Smith (0)
• Miguel Mas-Hesse (0)
• Ana Heras (0)
• Marie-Jo Goupil (0)
• Thierry Appourchaux (0)
• Willy Benz (0)
• Nuno Santos (0)
• Manuel Guedel (0)
• Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard (0)
• Robert Szabo (0)
• Eduardo Janot-Pacheco (0)
• Juan Carlos Suárez (0)
• Mauro Focardi (0)
• Stefano Pezzuto (0)
• Rosario Cosentino (0)
• Anna Maria Di Giorgio (1)
• Anders Erikson (0)
• Andrew Tkachenko (0)
• Joris De Ridder (0)
• Bart Vandenbussche (0)
• Pierre Roye (0)
• Rik Huygen (0)
• Sara Regibo (0)
• Ann Baeke (0)
• Aline Hermans (0)
• Lionel Clermont (0)
• Jérôme Jacobs (0)
• Thierry Morel (0)
• Virginie Cessa (0)
• Valentina Viotto (0)
• Timothy Bandy (0)
• Maria Bergomi (0)
• Marco Dima (0)
• Demetrio Magrin (0)
• Davide Greggio (0)
• Daniele Piazza (0)
• Mathias Brändli (0)
• Matteo Munari (0)
• Mauro Ghigo (0)
• Francesco Borsa (0)
• Stefano Basso (0)
• Giordano Bruno (0)
• Martin Rieder (0)
• Göran Oloffson (0)
• Jacopo Farinato (0)
• Thierry De Roche (0)
• Luca Marafatto (0)
• Federico Biondi (0)
• Gabriele Umbriaco (0)
• Elisabetta Tommasi (0)
• Mario Salatti (0)
• Orietta Lanciano (0)
• Silvia Natalucci (0)
• David Biondi (0)
• John Scige Liu (0)
• Milena Benedettini (0)
• Gianluca Li Causi (0)
• Claudia Dreyer (0)
• Salvatore Di Franco (0)
• Andrea Lorenzani (0)
• Emanuele Pace (0)
• Andrea Meneghin (0)
• Flavia Calderone (0)
• Filippo Marliani (0)
• Hans Kjeldsen (0)
• Michel Min (0)
• Daniela Sicilia (0)
• Anko Börner (0)
• Juan Cabrera (0)
• Martin Pertenais (0)
• Gisbert Peter (0)
• Roberto Silvotti (0)
• Paolo Ventura (0)
• Giuseppina Micela (0)
• Mario Damasso (0)
• Franz Kerschbaum (0)
• Manfred Steller (0)
• Enrico Corsaro (0)
• Pierre Maxted (0)
• Tiago Campante (0)
• Susana Barros (0)
• Vardan Adibekyan (0)
• Serena Benatti (0)
• Maria Pia Di Mauro (0)
• Loredana Prisinzano (0)
• Gaetano Scandariato (0)
• Mario Giuseppe Guarcello (0)
• Sara Bonito (0)
• Jesus Maldonado (0)
• Luca Malavolta (0)
• Luca Fossati (0)
• Eleonora Alei (0)

Publications

• ESA Books (0)
• PLATO papers (0)

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)

uncategorized

• Summary (0)
• PLATO ESP2018 Presentations (0)
• Nobel Prize in Physics to M. Mayor and D. Queloz (0)

Videos

• PLATO Long Pointing and Step & Stare Phases (0)
• PLATO Observing Concept (0)
• PLATO’s eye (0)
• PLATO vs. Kepler FoV (0)
• Optical Segmentation for a huge Field of View (0)
• PLATO’s eye (0)