The PLATO mission

2025/04/21 by Heike Rauer, Conny Aerts, Juan Cabrera +843 · 176 citations

paper · doi:10.1007/s10686-025-09985-9

published in Experimental Astronomy 59(3) (Springer Science and Business Media LLC)

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Abstract

Abstract 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 _\textrmEarth Earth ) around bright stars (

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