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astro-ph.EP2026

Following up the Kepler field with PLATO: Transit Timing Performance

Morgan A. Mitchell, James McCormac, Don Pollacco +11

The European Space Agency is set to launch PLATO, the third medium-class mission of its Cosmic Vision programme, in early 2027. Using the transit method, PLATO is expected to detec…

astro-ph.SR2026

Imaging magnetically driven astrospheres: a forward modelling approach

Ziqi Wu, Tom Van Doorsselaere, Jiansen He +5

An astrosphere is a vast, tailed bubble-like volume around a star, formed through the interaction between the stellar magnetic field, the stellar wind, and the interstellar medium…

astro-ph.GA2026

Plato's view on supermassive black hole binaries: Exploring the faint limit of ESA's Plato space mission

Nicholas Jannsen, Pablo Huijse, Kevin Park +3

The search for supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs) has, in recent years, seen the dawn of exploration with several hundred candidates claimed from photometric and spectroscop…

astro-ph.SR2026

Variability classification of TESS targets in LOPS2, the first long-term pointing field of PLATO. Version 1 of the public variability catalogue

Mykyta Kliapets, Pablo Huijse, Jeroen Audenaert +28

The PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars (PLATO) mission is expected to launch in January 2027. A total of 8\% of its data rate will be dedicated to complementary science t…

astro-ph.EP2026★ 2 cited

Assessment of PLATO Science Performance

Juan Cabrera, Heike Rauer, Reza Samadi +121

The PLATO mission is scheduled for launch early 2027. In this paper we present an overview of the performance drivers for the mission at the time where all flight models of the cam…

astro-ph.SR2026

The PLATO Science Calibration and Validation Plan: Targets for the First Long-pointing Field

Konstanze Zwintz, Conny Aerts, Andrew Tkachenko +56

In order to meet the science goals of the PLATO space mission, an extensive science calibration and validation plan has been designed. This paper describes this plan, as well as th…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 1 cited

Observing bright pulsating white dwarfs with PLATO: A new window into the late stages of stellar evolution

Murat Uzundag, Alejandro H. Corsico, Nicholas Jannsen +17

We present the scientific case for exploiting the capabilities of the PLATO mission to study bright pulsating white dwarfs across a wide spectral range, including hydrogen-deficien…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 1 cited

A search for periodic AGN variability in Data Release 3

Pablo Huijse, Jordy Davelaar, Joris De Ridder +2

Supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHB) are expected to produce periodic modulations in active galactic nuclei (AGN) light curves, but distinguishing such signals from stochastic…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 5 cited

MOCKA -- A PLATO mock asteroseismic catalogue: Simulations for gravity-mode oscillators

N. Jannsen, A. Tkachenko, P. Royer +14

With ESA's PLATO space mission set for launch in December 2026, a new photometric legacy and a future of new scientific discoveries await. In this work we investigate PLATO's poten…

astro-ph.EP2024

Detecting and sizing the Earth with PLATO: A feasibility study based on solar data

A. F. Krenn, M. Lendl, S. Sulis +8

Context. The PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars (PLATO) mission will observe the same area of the sky continuously for at least two years in an effort to detect transit s…

astro-ph.EP2024

Panopticon: a novel deep learning model to detect single transit events with no prior data filtering in PLATO light curves

H. G. Vivien, M. Deleuil, N. Jannsen +4

To prepare for the analyses of the future PLATO light curves, we develop a deep learning model, Panopticon, to detect transits in high precision photometric light curves. Since PLA…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 13 cited

The PLATO Mission

Heike Rauer, Conny Aerts, Juan Cabrera +842

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 numb…