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<p>PLATO (PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars) is ESA’s M3 mission designed to detect and characterise extrasolar planets and perform asteroseismic monitoring of a large number of stars. PLATO will detect small planets (down to &lt;2R<InlineEquation ID="IEq1"> <InlineMediaObject> <ImageObject Color="BlackWhite" FileRef="10686_2025_9985_Article_IEq1.gif" Format="GIF" Height="11" Rendition="HTML" Resolution="72" Type="Linedraw" Width="31" /> </InlineMediaObject> <EquationSource Format="TEX">\(_\textrm{Earth}\)</EquationSource> <EquationSource Format="MATHML"><math> <mmultiscripts> <mrow /> <mtext>Earth</mtext> <mrow /> </mmultiscripts> </math></EquationSource> </InlineEquation>) around bright stars (&lt;11 mag), including terrestrial planets in the habitable zone of solar-like stars. With the complement of radial velocity observations from the ground, planets will be characterised for their radius, mass, and age with high accuracy (5%, 10%, 10% for an Earth-Sun combination respectively). PLATO will provide us with a large-scale catalogue of well-characterised small planets up to intermediate orbital periods, relevant for a meaningful comparison to planet formation theories and to better understand planet evolution. It will make possible comparative exoplanetology to place our Solar System planets in a broader context. In parallel, PLATO will study (host) stars using asteroseismology, allowing us to determine the stellar properties with high accuracy, substantially enhancing our knowledge of stellar structure and evolution. The payload instrument consists of 26 cameras with 12cm aperture each. For at least four years, the mission will perform high-precision photometric measurements. Here we review the science objectives, present PLATO‘s target samples and fields, provide an overview of expected core science performance as well as a description of the instrument and the mission profile towards the end of the serial production of the flight cameras. PLATO is scheduled for a launch date end 2026. This overview therefore provides a summary of the mission to the community in preparation of the upcoming operational phases.</p>

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The PLATO mission

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  • Jorge Tonfat,
  • Nicola Tosi,
  • Regner Trampedach,
  • Gregor Traven,
  • Amaury Triaud,
  • Reidar Trønnes,
  • Maria Tsantaki,
  • Matthias Tschentscher,
  • Arnaud Turin,
  • Adam Tvaruzka,
  • Bernd Ulmer,
  • Solène Ulmer-Moll,
  • Ceren Ulusoy,
  • Gabriele Umbriaco,
  • Diana Valencia,
  • Marica Valentini,
  • Adriana Valio,
  • Ángel Luis Valverde Guijarro,
  • Vincent Van Eylen,
  • Valerie Van Grootel,
  • Tim A. van Kempen,
  • Timothy Van Reeth,
  • Iris Van Zelst,
  • Bart Vandenbussche,
  • Konstantinos Vasiliou,
  • Valeriy Vasilyev,
  • David Vaz de Mascarenhas,
  • Allona Vazan,
  • Marina Vela Nunez,
  • Eduardo Nunes Velloso,
  • Rita Ventura,
  • Paolo Ventura,
  • Julia Venturini,
  • Isabel Vera Trallero,
  • Dimitri Veras,
  • Eva Verdugo,
  • Kuldeep Verma,
  • Didier Vibert,
  • Tobias Vicanek Martinez,
  • Krisztián Vida,
  • Arthur Vigan,
  • Antonio Villacorta,
  • Eva Villaver,
  • Marcos Villaverde Aparicio,
  • Valentina Viotto,
  • Eduard Vorobyov,
  • Sergey Vorontsov,
  • Frank W. Wagner,
  • Nicholas Walton,
  • Dave Walton,
  • Haiyang Wang,
  • Rens Waters,
  • Christopher Watson,
  • Sven Wedemeyer,
  • Angharad Weeks,
  • Jörg Weingrill,
  • Annita Weiss,
  • Belinda Wendler,
  • Richard West,
  • Karsten Westerdorff,
  • Pierre-Amaury Westphal,
  • Peter Wheatley,
  • Tim White,
  • Amadou Whittaker,
  • Kai Wickhusen,
  • Thomas Wilson,
  • James Windsor,
  • Othon Winter,
  • Mark Lykke Winther,
  • Alistair Winton,
  • Ulrike Witteck,
  • Veronika Witzke,
  • Peter Woitke,
  • David Wolter,
  • Günther Wuchterl,
  • Mark Wyatt,
  • Dan Yang,
  • Jie Yu,
  • Ricardo Zanmar Sanchez,
  • María Rosa Zapatero Osorio,
  • Mathias Zechmeister,
  • Yixiao Zhou,
  • Claas Ziemke,
  • Konstanze Zwintz,
  • Torsten Böhm,
  • Léo Michel Dansac

摘要

PLATO (PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars) is ESA’s M3 mission designed to detect and characterise extrasolar planets and perform asteroseismic monitoring of a large number of stars. PLATO will detect small planets (down to <2R \(_\textrm{Earth}\) Earth ) around bright stars (<11 mag), including terrestrial planets in the habitable zone of solar-like stars. With the complement of radial velocity observations from the ground, planets will be characterised for their radius, mass, and age with high accuracy (5%, 10%, 10% for an Earth-Sun combination respectively). PLATO will provide us with a large-scale catalogue of well-characterised small planets up to intermediate orbital periods, relevant for a meaningful comparison to planet formation theories and to better understand planet evolution. It will make possible comparative exoplanetology to place our Solar System planets in a broader context. In parallel, PLATO will study (host) stars using asteroseismology, allowing us to determine the stellar properties with high accuracy, substantially enhancing our knowledge of stellar structure and evolution. The payload instrument consists of 26 cameras with 12cm aperture each. For at least four years, the mission will perform high-precision photometric measurements. Here we review the science objectives, present PLATO‘s target samples and fields, provide an overview of expected core science performance as well as a description of the instrument and the mission profile towards the end of the serial production of the flight cameras. PLATO is scheduled for a launch date end 2026. This overview therefore provides a summary of the mission to the community in preparation of the upcoming operational phases.