PLATO related papers

General

• Rauer, H., Heras, A., Mas-Hesse, M., & Pagano, I. 2023, AAS/Division for Planetary Sciences Meeting Abstracts, The PLATO Mission – An Overview
• Rauer, H., Aerts, C., Deleuil, M., et al. 2022, European Planetary Science Congress, The PLATO Mission
• Heras, A. M., & Rauer, H. 2022, 44th COSPAR Scientific Assembly. Held 16-24 July, The PLATO Mission
• Heras, A. M., Rauer, H., Aerts, C., et al. 2022, Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, ESA's PLATO mission: Development status and upcoming milestones
• Rauer, H., Pagano, I., Mas-Hesse, M., et al. 2021, European Planetary Science Congress, The PLATO mission: Overview and status
• Deleuil, M. 2021, 43rd COSPAR Scientific Assembly. Held 28 January - 4 February, The PLATO Mission: the Quest for Temperate Planets
• Heras, A. M., Rauer, H., Aerts, C., et al. 2020, European Planetary Science Congress, The PLATO mission: Studying the diversity of exoplanets orbiting up to the habitable zone of Sun-like stars
• Heras, A. M., Rauer, H., Aerts, C., et al. 2020, European Planetary Science Congress, The PLATO mission: Studying the diversity of exoplanets orbiting up to the habitable zone of Sun-like stars
• Magrin, D., Ragazzoni, R., Rauer, H., et al. 2018, Proceedings of the SPIE, PLATO: the ESA mission for exo-planets discovery ​​
• Rauer, H., Heras, A.M. 2017, Handbook of Exoplanets, Springer Living Reference Work, Space Missions for Exoplanet Science: PLATO
• Rauer, H. 2017, EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts, The PLATO Mission
• PLATO Definition Study report, ESA, 2017
• Rauer, H., Aerts, C., Cabrera, J., & PLATO Team 2016, Astronomische Nachrichten, The PLATO Mission
• Ragazzoni, R., Magrin, D., Rauer, H., et al. 2016, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave, PLATO: a multiple telescope spacecraft for exo-planets hunting
• Rauer, H., Catala, C., Aerts, C., et al. 2014, Experimental Astronomy, The PLATO 2.0 mission
• PLATO Assessment Study Report, ESA, 2013

Science

• Schlecker, M., Apai, D., Lichtenberg, T., et al. 2024, The Planetary Science Journal, Bioverse: The Habitable Zone Inner Edge Discontinuity as an Imprint of Runaway Greenhouse Climates on Exoplanet Demographics
• Magliano, C., Covone, G., Nascimbeni, V., et al. 2024, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, PLATO on the shoulders of TESS: Analyzing mono-transit planet candidates in TESS data as a prior knowledge for PLATO observations
• Jannsen, N., De Ridder, J., Seynaeve, D., et al. 2024, Astronomy and Astrophysics, PlatoSim: an end-to-end PLATO camera simulator for modelling high-precision space-based photometry
• Dalal, S., Haywood, R. D., Mortier, A., Chaplin, W. J., & Meunier, N. 2023, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Predicting convective blueshift and radial-velocity dispersion due to granulation for FGK stars
• Matuszewski, F., Nettelmann, N., Cabrera, J., Börner, A., & Rauer, H. 2023, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Estimating the number of planets that PLATO can detect
• Bétrisey, J., Buldgen, G., Reese, D. R., et al. 2023, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Asteroseismic modelling strategies in the PLATO era. I. Mean density inversions and direct treatment of the seismic information
• Maxted, P. F. L. 2023, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Fundamental effective temperature measurements for eclipsing binary stars - IV. Selection of new benchmark stars and first results for HD 22064
• Canocchi, G., Malavolta, L., Pagano, I., et al. 2023, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Discovering planets with PLATO: Comparison of algorithms for stellar activity filtering
• Bray, J. C., Kolb, U., Rowden, P., et al. 2023, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Population study of astrophysical false positive detections in the southern PLATO field
• Mantovan, G., Montalto, M., Piotto, G., et al. 2022, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Validation of TESS exoplanet candidates orbiting solar analogues in the all-sky PLATO input catalogue
• Kostogryz, N. M., Witzke, V., Shapiro, A. I., et al. 2022, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Stellar limb darkening. A new MPS-ATLAS library for Kepler, TESS, CHEOPS, and PLATO passbands
• Verma, K., Rørsted, J. L., Serenelli, A. M., et al. 2022, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Advanced asteroseismic modelling: breaking the degeneracy between stellar mass and initial helium abundance
• Heller, R., Harre, J.-V., & Samadi, R. 2022, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Transit least-squares survey. IV. Earth-like transiting planets expected from the PLATO mission
• Knapmeyer, M., & Walterová, M. 2022, Advances in Geophysics, Planetary core radii: from Plato towards PLATO
• Buldgen, G., Bétrisey, J., Roxburgh, I. W., Vorontsov, S. V., & Reese, D. R. 2022, Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, Inversions of Stellar Structure From Asteroseismic Data
• Bétrisey, J., & Buldgen, G. 2022, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Probing stellar cores from inversions of frequency separation ratios
• Nielsen, M. B., Hatt, E., Chaplin, W. J., Ball, W. H., & Davies, G. R. 2022, Astronomy and Astrophysics, A probabilistic method for detecting solar-like oscillations using meaningful prior information. Application to TESS 2-minute photometry
• Hippke, M., & Heller, R. 2022, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pandora: A fast open-source exomoon transit detection algorithm
• Gent, M. R., Bergemann, M., Serenelli, A., et al.  2022, Astronomy and Asrophysics, The SAPP pipeline for the determination of stellar abundances and atmospheric parameters of stars in the core program of the PLATO mission
• Nascimbeni, V., Piotto, G., Börner, A., et al. 2022, Astronomy and Astrophysics, The PLATO field selection process I. Identification and content of the long-pointing fields
• Cunha, M. S., Roxburgh, I. W., Børsen-Koch, V. A., et al. 2021, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, PLATO Hare-and-Hounds exercise: Asteroseismic model fitting of main-sequence solar-like pulsators
• Jørgensen, A. C. S., Montalbán, J., Angelou, G. C., et al. 2021, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, On the impact of the structural surface effect on global stellar properties and asteroseismic analyses
• Montalto, M., Piotto, G., Marrese, P. M., et al. 2021, Astronomy and Astrophysics, The all-sky PLATO input catalogue
• Nsamba, B., Moedas, N., Campante, T. L., et al. 2021, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Asteroseismic modelling of solar-type stars: a deeper look at the treatment of initial helium abundance
• Umbriaco, G. 2020, arXiv e-prints, Exoplanets through extreme optics: from PLATO to SHARK-NIR
• Grenfell, J. L., Godolt, M., Cabrera, J., et al. 2020, Experimental Astronomy, Atmospheric Characterization via Broadband Color Filters on the PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars (PLATO) Mission
• Salsi, A., Nardetto, N., Mourard, D., et al. 2020, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Precise calibration of the dependence of surface brightness-colour relations on colour and class for late-type stars
• de Almeida, L., Anthony, F., Carolina Mattiuci, A., et al. 2020, Experimental Astronomy, Optimized cutting off transit algorithm to study stellar rotation from PLATO mission light curves
• Rodenbeck, K., Heller, R., & Gizon, L. 2020, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Exomoon indicators in high-precision transit light curves
• Morris, B. M., Bobra, M. G., Agol, E., et al. 2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, The stellar variability noise floor for transiting exoplanet photometry with PLATO
• Sulis, S., Lendl, M., Hofmeister, S., et al. 2020, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Mitigating flicker noise in high-precision photometry. I. Characterization of the noise structure, impact on the inferred transit parameters, and predictions for CHEOPS observations
• Marchiori, V., Samadi, R., Fialho, F., et al. 2019, Astronomy and Astrophysics, In-flight photometry extraction of PLATO targets: Optimal apertures for detecting extrasolar planets
• Samadi, R., Deru, A., Reese, D., et al. 2019, Astronomy and Astrophysics, The PLATO Solar-like Light-curve Simulator: A tool to generate realistic stellar light-curves with instrumental effects representative of the PLATO mission
• Mosser, B., Michel, E., Samadi, R., et al. 2019, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Seismic performance
• Goupil, M. 2017, European Physical Journal Web of Conferences 160, Expected asteroseismic performances with the space project PLATO
• Veras, D., Brown, D.J.A., Mustill, A.J., Pollacco, D. 2017, European Planetary Science Congress 11, EPSC2017-49, Prospects for detecting decreasing exoplanet frequency with main-sequence age using PLATO
• Miglio, A., Chiappini, C., Mosser, B., et al. 2017, Astronomische Nachrichten, PLATO as it is: A legacy mission for Galactic archaeology
• Nascimbeni, V., Piotto, G., Ortolani, S., et al. 2016, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, An all-sky catalogue of solar-type dwarfs for exoplanetary transit surveys
• Walton, N. A. 2016, Multi-Object Spectroscopy in the Next Decade: Big Questions, Large Surveys, and Wide Fields, Gaia and WEAVE/WxES: Supporting the PLATO Exoplanet Hunter
• Veras, D., Brown, D. J. A., Mustill, A. J., et al. 2015, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Prospects for detecting decreasing exoplanet frequency with main-sequence age using PLATO
• Marcos-Arenal, P., Zima, W., De Ridder, J., et al. 2015, Astrophysics Source Code Library, PLATO Simulator: Realistic simulations of expected observations
• Suárez, J. C., Garrido, R., Mas-Hesse, J. M., et al. 2015, Highlights of Spanish Astrophysics VIII, Asteroseismology in PLATO. A necessary tool for characterizing planetary systems
• Rodrigo Blanco, C., Suárez, J. C., Solano, E., et al. 2015, Highlights of Spanish Astrophysics VIII, TOUCAN: A VO tool for asteroseismology. Scientific preparation and exploitation of the PLATO mission.
• Marcos-Arenal, P., Zima, W., De Ridder, J., et al. 2014, Astronomy and Astrophysics, The PLATO Simulator: modelling of high-precision high-cadence space-based imaging

Mission

• Capuano, E., Burresi, M., Novi, A., et al. 2023, Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Conference Series, Thermal and dynamic qualification test results on PLATO optical mount groups based on lenses made of brittle materials (CaF2, S-FPL51)
• Chinellato, S., Auricchio, N., Postiglione, G., et al. 2022, Modeling, Systems Engineering, and Project Management for Astronomy X, The TOU of the PLATO mission from a product assurance point of view
• Cabrero, J. F., Valverde, A., Ramos, G., et al. 2022, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2022: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave, PLATO focal plane assembly (FPA) qualification model (QM): an innovative real-time metrology
• Galli, E., Giusi, G., Russi, A., et al. 2022, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2022: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave, The PLATO instrument control unit software: a model based SW architecture
• Vela Nuñez, M., Galli, E., Loidolt, D., et al. 2022, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2022: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave, PLATO payload, big data PUS packets classifier and astronomical digital imagette data decompression
• Pagliazzi, M., Dami, M., Pompei, C., et al. 2022, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2022: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave, Precise localization of the best image plane of PLATO telescope optical units
• Pertenais, M., Ammler-von Eiff, M., Burresi, M., et al. 2022, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2022: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave, PLATO camera ghosts: simulations and measurements on the engineering model (EM)
• Novi, A., Battistelli, E., Burresi, M., et al. 2022, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2022: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave, An industrialized and deterministic approach for aligning and focusing the 26 PLATO refractive telescopes, designed for operating in space
• Cottinelli, A., Vassallo, D., Farinato, J., et al. 2022, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2022: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave, Hartmann data analysis for PLATO TOU EM
• Munari, M., Magrin, D., Ragazzoni, R., et al. 2022, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2022: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave, The PLATO TOU optical design: description, properties, and nominal performances
• Royer, P., Baeke, A., Terrasa, G., et al. 2022, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2022: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave, Alignment and integration of the first PLATO camera
• Koncz, A., Eigmüller, P., Michaelis, H., et al. 2022, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2022: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave, PLATO fast front end electronics (F-FEE): performance results of the engineering model
• Borsa, F., Cottinelli, A., Gorius, N., et al. 2022, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2022: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave, PLATO EM first cryogenic vacuum test campaign PSF results
• Pagliazzi, M., Dami, M., Pompei, C., et al. 2022, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2022: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave, Metrology characterization of the PLATO telescope optical units
• Cosentino, R., Focardi, M., Galli, E., et al. 2022, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2022: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave, PLATO: the status of the instrument control unit following its critical design review
• Grießbach, D., Witteck, U., & Paproth, C. 2021, Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Conference Series, The fine guidance system of the PLATO mission
• Pertenais, M., Cabrera, J., Paproth, C., et al. 2021, Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Conference Series, The unique field-of-view and focusing budgets of PLATO
• Pertenais, M., Cabrera, J., Griessbach, D., et al. 2021, Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Conference Series, Overview of PLATO's cameras on-ground and in-orbit calibration and characterisation
• Abreu, M., Castro Alves, D., Cabral, A., et al. 2020, Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Conference Series, A white light collimator for Plato camera integration support
• Baldacci, S., Granata, F., Serafini, L., et al. 2020, Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Conference Series, Design and validation of the boot software for the instrument control unit of the PLATO mission
• Chinellato, S., Postiglione, G., Bandy, T., et al. 2020, Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Conference Series, Product assurance for the PLATO Telescope optical unit
• Cosentino, R., Focardi, M., Pezzuto, S., et al. 2020, Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Conference Series, The instrument control unit of the PLATO payload: design consolidation following the preliminary design review by ESA
• Loidolt, D., Ottensamer, R., Luntzer, A., et al. 2020, Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Conference Series, A combined software and hardware data compression approach in PLATO
• Magrin, D., Ragazzoni, R., Pagano, I., et al. 2020, Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Conference Series, PLATO telescope optical units: an update on working status
• Regibo, S., Huygen, R., Royer, P., et al. 2020, Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Conference Series, Design of the electrical ground support equipment for the PLATO camera AIV
• Royer, P., Clermont, L., Pertenais, M., et al. 2020, Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Conference Series, On the optical alignment of the PLATO cameras
• Moreno, J., Vielba, E., Manjón, A., et al. 2019, Proceedings of the SPIE, PLATO FPA. focal plane assembly of PLATO instrument
• Ramos, G., Valverde Guijarro, A.L., Rodrigo, M.T., et al. 2019, Proceedings of the SPIE, Planetary transits and oscillation of stars (PLATO) focal plane assembly (FPA): prototype assembly and integration verification
• Clermont, L., Jacobs, J., Blain, P., et al. 2018, Proceedings of the SPIE, Automatized alignment of the focal plane assemblies on the PLATO cameras
• Corso, A.J., Tessarolo, E., Baccaro, S., et al. 2018, Optics Express, Rad-hard properties of the optical glass adopted for the PLATO space telescope refractive components
• Focardi, M., Cosentino, R., Pezzuto, S., et al. 2018, The PLATO Payload Data Processing System SpaceWire network
• Focardi, M., Pezzuto, S., Cosentino, R, et al. 2018, Proceedings of the SPIE, The design of the instrument control unit and its role within the data processing system of the ESA PLATO Mission
• Prod'homme, T., Verhoeve, P., Lemmel, F., et al. 2018, Proceedings of the SPIE, Investigating end-of-life performance of the PLATO CCD: cryogenic versus room temperature proton irradiation comparison
• Rotundo, M., Leoni, A., Serafini, L., et al. 2018, Simulation and Validation of a SpaceWire On-Board Data-Handling Network for the PLATO Mission
• Umbriaco, G.,,Biondi, F., Farinato, J., et al. 2018, Proceedings of the SPIE, The telescope optical unit prototype AIV in the framework of the PLATO ESA mission
• Laubier, D., Bodin, P., Pasquier, H., et al. 2017, Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Conference Series 10564, The PLATO camera
• Beaufort, Th., Duvet, L., Bloemmaert, S., et al. 2016, High Energy, Optical, and Infrared Detectors for Astronomy VII, ESA's CCD test bench for the PLATO mission
• Verhoeve, P., Prod'homme, Th., Oosterbroek, T., et al. 2016, High Energy, Optical, and Infrared Detectors for Astronomy VII, Optical and dark characterization of the PLATO CCD at ESA
• Prod'homme, Th., Verhoeve, P., Beaufort, Th., et al. 2016, High Energy, Optical, and Infrared Detectors for Astronomy VII, Technology validation of the PLATO CCD at ESA
• Dima, M., Greggio, D., Bergomi, M., et al. 2016, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave, A display model for the TOU of PLATO: just a cool toy or a benchmark of opportunities?
• Gullieuszik, M., Magrin, D., Greggio, D., et al. 2016, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave, Thermal effects on PLATO point spread function
• Magrin, D., Ragazzoni, R., Bruno, G., et al. 2016, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave, Radiation, Thermal Gradient and Weight: a threefold dilemma for PLATO
• Magrin, D., Ragazzoni, R., Bergomi, M., et al. 2016, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave, Manufacturing and alignment tolerance analysis through Montecarlo approach for PLATO
• Focardi, M., Pezzuto, S., Cosentino, R., et al. 2016, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave, The instrument control unit of the ESA-PLATO 2.0 mission
• Mas-Hesse, J. M., Urqui O'Callaghan, R., Suárez J. C., et al. 2015, Highlights of Spanish Astrophysics VIII, The PLATO 2.0 mission. Spanish contribution
• Endicott, J., Walker, A., Bowring, S., et al. 2012, High Energy, Optical, and Infrared Detectors for Astronomy V, Charge-coupled devices for the ESA PLATO M-class Mission

Ground-BASED Observations ProgramME

• Weingrill, J., Granzer, T., Bittner, W., et al. 2020, Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Conference Series, BMK10k: an autonomous robotic observatory with fail-safe industrial components
• Raskin, G., Schwab, C., Vandenbussche, B., et al. 2020, Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Conference Series, MARVEL, a four-telescope array for high-precision radial-velocity monitoring
• Lanthermann, C., De Ridder, J., Sana, H., et al. 2020, Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Conference Series, Optimizing MARVEL for the radial velocity follow up of TESS and PLATO transiting exoplanets
• Kabáth, P., Skarka, M., Sabotta, S., et al. 2020, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Ondřejov Echelle Spectrograph, Ground Based Support Facility for Exoplanet Missions

• Strassmeier, K.G., Granzer, T., Weingrill, J., et al. 2019, Astronomische Nachrichten, Project BMK10k: Zeiss Ballistische Messkammer with a 10k × 10k CCD for ground-based PLATO support