Impact of stellar variability on the scientific output of the PLATO project
Lead Research Organisation:
UNIVERSITY OF EXETER
Department Name: Physics
Abstract
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Organisations
People |
ORCID iD |
| Suzanne Aigrain (Principal Investigator) |
Publications
Aigrain S
(2012)
A simple method to estimate radial velocity variations due to stellar activity using photometry? Activity-induced RV variations from photometry
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
| Description | I quantified the impact of stellar variability on the ability of PLATO to meet its stated goal of discovering habitable transiting planets around bright stars. This demonstrated the need to go beyond "standard" variability filtering and transit search algorithm, and develop methods which do both simultaneously. |
| Exploitation Route | The findings are being taken into account in the planning of the pipeline that will process PLATO data. |
| Sectors | Aerospace, Defence and Marine,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education |
| Description | This work was fed into the PLATO submission for ESA's M3 competition, and thus contributed to the selection of PLATO for that mission slot. It is now being used for planning the PLATO ground segment (treatment of stellar activity in light curves and radial velocity follow-up data). |
| First Year Of Impact | 2012 |