The PLATO Input Catalogue of targets (tPIC) for the first Long Pointing Field

arXiv:2604.03369 · astro-ph.EP, astro-ph.IM, astro-ph.SR · Submitted 2026-04-03 · Read on arXiv

astro-ph.EP, astro-ph.IM, astro-ph.SR

Submitted: 2026-04-03

Updated: 2026-10-09

Code: https://github.com/Exo-MerCat/Exo-MerCat

Project page: https://www.cosmos.esa.int/plato

Terminology

• Metallicity — 16× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Calibration — 14× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Abundance — 5× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• alpha — 5× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Beginning Of Life — 4× in this paper
• Core — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• European Space Agency — 4× in this paper
• Long-duration Observation Phase — 4× in this paper
• Agenzia Spaziale Italiana — 1× in this paper
• ESA Guest Observer — 1× in this paper
• ESA and the PLATO Mission Consortium — 1× in this paper
• Homogeneity — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Regular polytopes, sphere packings and Apollonian sections
• TESS Input Catalog versions 8.1 and 8.2: Phantoms in the 8.0 Catalog and How to Handle Them

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