PLATO Input Catalogue (PIC) Workshop (I)
Sala Consiliare, Provincia di Padova
This workshop is the first meeting of a series of thematic PLATO (Planetary Transit and Oscillations of stars) Input Catalog (PIC) workshops that aim at bringing together all researchers interested in building up a catalog of PLATO targets to be monitored during the mission lifetime.
PLATO is the third medium-class mission adopted by ESA within the Cosmic Vision program, presently under construction for a launch in 2026. PLATO main goal is to find and study a large number of extrasolar planets and planetary systems, with emphasis on the properties of terrestrial planets in the habitable zone around bright and nearby solar-like stars. PLATO has also been designed to perform asteroseismology, enabling the accurate characterization of planet host stars, including their mass and age.
High precision light curves of stars in the PLATO fields will be collected with a cadence between 2.5 sec to 50 sec (duty cycle > 93% / year). The enormous data rate does not allow us to download the single images. Imagettes around up to 20000 stars, and light curves for up to one million stars will be processed on-board and sent to Earth. A PLATO input catalog including positions and main parameters of PLATO targets is crucial to preselect the stars most appropriate for the main mission goal.
During the workshop, researchers interested in exoplanet science, stellar astrophysics and complementary science will have the opportunity to discuss the PLATO target selection, prioritization and characterization.
Alessandro Sozzetti
Alexandre Santerne
Ana M. Heras
Andrea Miglio
Andreas Quirrenbach
Andrew Tkachenko
Antonino F. Lanza
Antonio Villacorta
Billy Edwards
Charlotte Gehan
Cilia Damiani
Conny Aerts
Cristina Chiappini
Domenico Nardiello
Domitilla de Martino
Don Pollacco
Eduard Masana
Eleni Manthopoulou
Ennio Poretti
Francesca De Angeli
Gaia Lacedelli
Gavin Ramsay
Giampaolo Piotto
Giorgia Busso
Giuseppe Altavilla
Hans Deeg
Ignasi Ribas
Isabella Pagano
Isabelle Boisse
Jesus Higuera
John Bray
Josep Manel Carrasco
Juan Cabrera
Keivan Stassun
Klaus Strassmeier
Konstanze Zwintz
Leo Girardi
Loredana Prisinzano
Luca Borsato
Luca Malavolta
Magali Deleuil
Marcella Di Criscienzo
Marco Montalto
Marek Skarka
Marica Valentini
Mariejo Goupil
Michele Fabrizio
Nicholas Walton
Nicolas Nardetto
Paola Maria Marrese
Patrick Gaulme
Paul A. Wilson
Petr Kabath
Pierre Maxted
Riccardo Claudi
Roelof de Jong
Réza Samadi
Serena Benatti
Sergio Ortolani
Silvano Desidera
Silvia Marinoni
Simon Hodgkin
Stephane Udry
Tesfaye Muhie
Thierry Morel
Timothy Van Reeth
Tomaž Zwitter
Ulrich Kolb
Valentina Granata
Valerio Nascimbeni
Vardan Adibekyan