The European Space Agency has selected PLATO (PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars) for its M3 launch which is scheduled for 2026. With its extremely large field of view, PLATO is designed to obtain photometric measurements over an extended period for bright stars in order to detect and characterise (primarily) rocky planets in the habitable zones of solar type stars. The PLATO measurements will have sufficient sensitivity to determine the mass, radius and age of the host stars with unprecedented accuracy. The PLATO planet database will provide the first large-scale catalogue of accurately and homogeneously characterised small planets at intermediate orbital periods, which will can be used to severely constraint planet formation theories. This would facilitate large scale comparative exo-planetology. In addition the bright PLATO host stars will be ideal targets for atmospheric study with next generation facilities such as the ELT. The PLATO sensitivity will be sufficient to detect pulsations from stars across the HR diagram allowing a deep understanding of stellar structure and evolution to be developed using parameters determined from asteroseismology.


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    Titel :

    The PLATO Mission


    Beteiligte:
    Michaelis, H. (Autor:in) / Rauer, H. (Autor:in) / Pollacco, D. (Autor:in) / Cabrera, J. (Autor:in)


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    01.06.2018


    Format / Umfang :

    1510244 byte





    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch



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