PLATO-Pub

Welcome to the open version of PLATO-Pub, the publication review platform for the ESA PLATO mission. Here you will find some general information on the mission, useful links for more information about the mission and access to the latest news, key papers describing the PLATO mission, and a full record of all published papers related to the PLATO mission.

If you wish to access the closed consortium version of the site (to see and comment on newly submitted papers), please register first as a member of the PLATO consortium, sign the associated non-disclosure agreement, and then create a user on PLATO-Pub.

The PLATO mission

PLATO (Planetary Transits and Oscillations of stars) is ESA’s third medium-class mission under Cosmic Vision 2015–2025. Lifting off aboard an Ariane 6 in late 2026, it will stare from the Sun–Earth L2 point at more than 200 000 Sun-like stars, recording their brightness with 26 synchronised cameras. Minute, periodic dips in these light curves will reveal new exoplanets -- especially Earth-sized worlds in the habitable zone -- while subtle stellar oscillations in the same data will pin down each host star’s size and age. Follow-up radial-velocity and transit-timing studies from ground-based observatories will add planetary masses, enabling the calculation of densities, irradiation levels and system architectures. The resulting open catalogue will anchor future searches for planets that could sustain life.


Key PLATO papers

    Notes:

  • You can click on any paper to see it on this page then click it again to close it, or click on the Link to ADS below.
  • Only the open source ArXiv version of the papers will be shown