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Fotografiar Exoplanetas

Desde el canal Quantum Fracture (José Luis Crespo), esta creando en su canal de Youtube un episodio especial sobre Exoplanetas. En este episodio, cuantan con la colaboracion de  Enric Pallé Bagó y Hector Socas-Navarro del Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias y nos describen los aspectos clave de la...

PLATO Payload Progress Meeting 26.5.2020

The PLATO mission does not stop, the 26th May 2020 progress meeting faces the COVID moving to teleconference event. The PLATO members met for the PLATO Progress Meeting of 26th May 2020, by means of teleconferencing. We welcome the effort of all of them to mitigate the impact of the COVID in the...

A planet pass over an star to demostrate transit method

The measurement principle of PLATO is to carry out high precision, long (months to years), uninterrupted photometric monitoring in the visible band of very large samples of bright (mV ≤ 11–13) stars. The resulting light curves will be used for the detection of planetary transits, from which the...

Poster Session 2020-02-16

New poster that summarizes the progress in the development of PLATO MEU development.     Download, the full resolution version in pdf .

On the path to Engineer Model

IAA (Instituto Astrofísica de Andalucía) and IAC (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias) have integrate sucessfully the Engineering Model of the PLATO MEU. IAA has tested a complete MEU to verify the functionalities and power supply requirements with successful results.  Despite these...