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Webinar ESA's PLATO Mission November 25, 2020

Submitted by plato-project on Thu, 02/04/2021 - 23:03
Seminar Dr. Heike at ISSI

Professor Dr. Heike Rauer is director of the Institute of Planetary Research of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) talks about PLATO mission at International.

Professor Dr. Heike Rauer is director of the Institute of Planetary Research of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and professor for planetary geophysics at the Free University of Berlin. Since 2013, she is PI of the PLATO mission and a Co-PI of the ground-based Next-Generation Transit Survey (NGTS). She was a member of the science council of the French-European mission CoRoT, the first mission dedicated to the search for extrasolar planets, and participated in ESA´s Rosetta mission before focusing on exoplanet science. Heike Rauer obtained her degree in physics in 1986 and subsequently performed her Ph.D. and habilitation in the field of planetary sciences.

Fotografiar Exoplanetas

Submitted by plato-project on Mon, 06/22/2020 - 12:41

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 caza de exoplanetas desde tierra.

 

Quantum Fracture

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A planet pass over an star to demostrate transit method

Submitted by plato-project on Sat, 03/07/2020 - 11:24

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 planetary radii will be determined, and for the asteroseismology analysis to derive accurate stellar parameters and ages. Since the PLATO targets are bright, the masses of the detected planets can be determined from radial velocity observations at ground-based observatories.