The Expected Yield of Venus Zone Terrestrial Planets from PLATO

arXiv:2607.14225 · astro-ph.EP · Submitted 2026-07-15 · Read on arXiv

Stephen R. Kane, Emma L. Miles, Colby M. Ostberg, Erika Kohler, James B. Garvin

astro-ph.EP

Submitted: 2026-07-15

Comments: 14 pages, 5 figures, 1 table, accepted for publication in PASP

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Venus Zone — 9× in this paper
• Calibration — 2× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Consistency — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Habitable Zone — 2× in this paper
• Metallicity — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers — 2× in this paper
• Trace — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• EMMA — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Population Synthesis — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Transmission spectroscopy — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• alpha — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode

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