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PLATO 2.0 Science Workshop

29 - 31 July 2013

ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands


THE WORKSHOP PRESENTATIONS ARE AVAILABLE!

 

Purpose and Goals

PLATO 2.0 is an ESA M3 candidate mission in the Cosmic Vision Programme and has been designed and optimized from the outset specifically to detect habitable zone rocky sized planets around bright solar type stars. Not only are these host stars suitable for planetary confirmation and follow-up studies, but they are ideal for asteroseismology studies whose impact has been proven from the CoRoT and Kepler missions. Thus PLATO 2.0 will produce catalogues of accurate parameters of terrestrial planets and planetary systems. It will be the first large-scale survey determining the ages of its detected planetary systems from their host stars. PLATO 2.0 data will be vital to test and develop planetary formation and evolution models and to address planetary science questions via its large numbers of accurate bulk planet parameters in systems of all kinds. As a result of the many hundred thousands of stars observed, PLATO 2.0 has furthermore a large complementary and legacy science program, from stellar to galactic science.

The PLATO 2.0 Science Workshop is open to the interested community. It will be held at ESA-ESTEC, Noordwijk, on 29-31 July, 2013.

The workshop shall examine the impact that PLATO will make on all areas of exoplanet, stellar, and legacy science areas. The preliminary program addresses a range of topics, describing the mission and where PLATO 2.0 will make an impact, e.g.:

  • The PLATO 2.0 Mission
  • Exoplanet science in the next decade
  • Asteroseismology across the HR diagram
  • Composition and internal structure of planets
  • Planet formation and evolution
  • Indications for extended atmospheres around small planets
  • Star-planet interaction, stellar activity and planet detection
  • Legacy science

The Scientific Organising Committee therefore invites abstracts and presentations, which contribute to these conference objectives. Please refer to the Preliminary Programme.

The conference will start on 29 July at 13:00 and will finish on 31 July at noon.

For more information on the PLATO mission, please visit:

http://sci.esa.int/plato

Schedule

First announcement  19 April 2013
Second announcement  20 June 2013
Deadline for submission of abstracts (extended)  06 July 2013
Notification of contribution acceptance  Before 10 July 2013
Deadline for registration  12 July 2013

Confirmed speakers

Roi Alonso, Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, Spain
Willy Benz, University of Bern, Switzerland
François Bouchy, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, France
Matteo Brogi, Leiden Observatory, The Netherlands
Bill Chaplin, University of Birmingham, UK
Marc Antoine Dupret, Université de Liège, Belgium
Ravit Helled, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
Saskia Hekker, Astronomical Institute Anton Pannekoek, The Netherlands
Jon Jenkins, SETI Institute, US
Willy Kley, Universität Tübingen, Germany
Helmut Lammer, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria
Nuccio Lanza, INAF – OACT, Italy
Andrea Miglio, University of Birmingham, UK
Christoph Mordasini, MPIA, Germany
Richard Nelson, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Isabella Pagano, INAF - OACT, Italy
Heike Rauer, DLR, Germany
Roberto Silvotti, INAF-OATO, Italy
Alessandro Sozzetti, INAF-OATO, Italy
Tilman Spohn, DLR, Germany
Stephane Udry, Observatoire de Genève, Switzerland
Konstanze Zwintz, KU Leuven, Belgium

 

 

Scientific Organising Committee

The workshop is organised by the ESA PLATO Science Study Team:

  • Heike Rauer, DLR, Germany
  • Marijo Goupil, Observatoire de Paris-Meudon, France
  • Ana Heras, ESA
  • Giampaolo Piotto, University of Padova, Italy
  • Don Pollacco, University of Warwick, UK
  • Stephane Udry, University of Geneva, Switzerland

Local Organising Committee

  • Ana Heras
  • Sun Deby
  • Rod Bailey
 
Local Organising Committee PLATO 2013