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19 May 2021

                        PLATO
PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars
                        Isabella Pagano
         Resp. Scientifica partecipazione Italiana a PLATO
                            PLATO Co-PI

                      AUDIZIONI SCHEDE INAF
                         17-31 MAY 2021
PLATO PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars - Isabella Pagano - INDICO @ INAF
The EP-RAT Roadmap

ESA EXOPLANET ROADMAP ADVISORY TEAM – Oct 2010

                        Time and difficulty

Time and difficulty

                      Rome, 5 Nov 2014
PLATO PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars - Isabella Pagano - INDICO @ INAF
PLATO PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars - Isabella Pagano - INDICO @ INAF
PLATO
         PLAnetary Transits & Oscillations of Stars

• 3° M class mission in ESA’s Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 Programme
• Launch: end 2026 – Ariane 6 from Kourou
• Operation: 4.25 yr (+2) yrs
     [satellite built with consumable for 8 yr]

Key Science Goals:
✓ Detection of terrestrial exoplanets in the habitable zone of
  solar-type stars and characterization of their bulk properties needed to determine their habitability.
✓ Understanding of the formation, the architecture, and the evolution (ages) of planetary systems by
  means of a full inventory of the physical properties of thousands of rocky, icy, and gaseous giant
  planets.
PLATO PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars - Isabella Pagano - INDICO @ INAF
Large diversity of planetary structure
  Lacedelli et al. (2020, MNRAS 501, 4148)

                                                           ü Masses vary by a
                                                             factor of ~4
                                                             (with large errors)

                                                           ü Radii vary by a
                                                             factor of ~3

                                             Mp
PLATO PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars - Isabella Pagano - INDICO @ INAF
Planet diversity
                     • Planets of Earth mass and below remain to be
 Earth 5.5   g/cm3     detected and characterized

GJ1214b 1.6 g/cm3

Mini gas planets
PLATO PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars - Isabella Pagano - INDICO @ INAF
A biased view
Our knowledge on planet nature is limited to close-in planets so far.

All planets
                                                       Planets with P>80 days
PLATO PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars - Isabella Pagano - INDICO @ INAF
Small planets with both Radius and Mass measured

Illustration of PLATO science exoplanet target range in comparison to other missions (Rauer et al. in preparation)
PLATO PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars - Isabella Pagano - INDICO @ INAF
The need for bright stars
Known planets from radial velocity and transit surveys

                                              ü Why have so few targets been characterized?

                                              ü Transit surveys targeted faint and distant stars
                                                to maximize detection performance.

                                              ü Radial velocity surveys need bright stars (≤11
                                                mag) to keep telescope resources limited.

                                           Lessons learned:
                           Future transit missions must target bright stars!
PLATO PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars - Isabella Pagano - INDICO @ INAF
Large FoV concept

                                         ©PLATO @INAF
Searching for transits of Bright Stars
➔➔ large FoV!
The Telescope Optical Units design concept
Single Telescope FoV ∼1200 sqdeg
      One Camera           Equivalent to a circle of ~38.7 deg diameter

                                              ✓ 24 Normal cameras
 Telescopes
                                              ✓fully dioptric, 6 lenses
 CCDs
                                              ✓ pupil 120 mm
 FPAs & Test House
                                              ✓Dynam. range: ~8 ≤ mV ≤ 11 (13)
 TOU+FPA integration
                                              ✓4 x CCD 4510×4510px per camera
 Test House
                                              ✓Pixels size: 18 μm square
Test House
                                              ✓read-out cadence: 25 sec
FSS
                                              ✓Band: 500 – 1050 nm

                                                                                 ©PLATO @INAF
OGSE+ MLI
                                              ✓2 Fast cameras
Transport Container
                                              ✓Bright stars (
Payload Concept

Instrument field of view is 2200 square degrees (vs 105 deg2 Kepler)
~2 billion pixels (2 000 Mpx vs 98 Mpx for Kepler) ~6 600 cm2 of sensitive area (2x Gaia)
The PLATO sky

                                              T h e f in
                                                          al
                                             w i l l b e o b s e r v in g s t
                                                         f ix e d ~            ra te g y
                                            la u n c h              2 yrs b
                                                         a nd ca            e fo
                                            d u r in g            n b e a d re
                                                        the m i             a pted
Observing strategy                                               s s io n .
 • Baseline
   2 long pointings of 2 years
  • Alternative
    3 years + 1 year step-and-stare phase
Methods and goals
          PHOTOMETRY FROM SPACE            SPECTROSCOPY FROM THE GROUND

Transit Method          Asteroseismology        Radial velocity method

→ Rp/R*                    → R*                 → Mp/M* sin i
→ Orbital inclination      → M*
→ Orbit parameters         → Stellar age

        Mean Densities, Age                        Evolution of planets & planetary
                                                   systems, Habitability
How PLATO is organised
                          Steering                                  About
                         Committee              PLATO Mission        750
                                                 Consortium        members

              PM                PI & co-PI
                   PS
                        PSWT                 PMC           PMC Science
                                             Board           Team
MISSION Man
  SATELLITE
                        PAYLOAD
   LAUNCH                                                   PMC Man
                     Ground Segment
  LAUNCHER
                   SOC            Science Preparation
                                  PLATO Data Center
                   MOC
Il Team INAF (and associated)
ü INAF
    •    OA Catania Science, Payload
    •    OA Padova Science, Payload
    •    OA Brera Science, Payload
    •    IAPS Roma Science, Payload
    •    OAS Payload
    •    FGG Payload
    •    OA Palermo Science
    •    OA Torino Science             • 114 people (95 INAF/ 19 associated)
    •    OA Capodimonte Science
                                       • In the period 2021-2023
    •    OA Roma Science
                                           • 15 FTE/yr INAF
    • OAAB Science
                                           • 4.5 FTE/yr associated
    • OA Arcetri Science
                                       • Distribution
ü UNIPD, UNIBO, UNIPI Science
                                           • 40 è Payload
ü SSDC PDC                                 • 72 è PSM
                                           • 4 è PDC (SSDC)
What we do for PLATO: PAYLOAD

                                  TOUs
 Cameras
  System
Management
                          ICU
Payload:                            Payload Team
    CAMERAs TEAM                               Jose Lorenzo Alvarez
                                             Payload Project Manager

OAS, IAPS, OACT, OAPD

                                                                 F. Borsa
                         P. Battaglia    G. Dinuzzi                TBD
                        F. Calderone                                        N. Auricchio
                                          A. Meoli                 TBD
                          F. Sortino     M. Munari                 TBD
                                        R. Ragazzoni
                                         Y. ZImmer

                                        P. Apollonio
                                         D. Dobrea
                                        M. Fürmetz
                                         G. Tropea
OACT, OAPD, OAB
Telescope Optical Units Team
                                          PROJECT                             SYSTEM                                                ANALYSIS &
                                                                                                        DESIGN                     PERFORMANCE                    AIV & GSE
                                           OFFICE                           ENGINEERING

                 TOU Project Manager             TOU Instrument Scientist      TOU System Engineer        Chief Optical Engineer         Optical Engineer,            Chief AIV Engineer
                                                                                                                                         Straylight Analysis
                   Isabella Pagano                 Roberto Ragazzoni             Valentina Viotto           Demetrio Magrin               §Matteo Munari               Jacopo Farinato
                      INAF-OACT                        INAF-OAPD                   INAF-OAPD                   INAF-OAPD                    INAF-OACT                    INAF-OAPD

               TOU Mechanical Structure          TOU Mechanical Structure      Mechanical Structure                                      Optical Engineer,
                   Project Manager                      Scientist               System Engineer         Chief Mechanical Engineer        Radiation analysis             AIV Engineer
                    Virginie Cessa                     Willy Benz                Timothy Bandy                Daniele Piazza               Mauro Ghigo                  Maria Bergomi
                                                                                                                  UBE                                                    INAF-OAPD
                         UBE                               UBE                          UBE                                                  INAF-OAB

                  F-TOU Filter Project            TOU Product Assurance        TOU Interface Engineer     Mechanical Engineer            Optical Engineer,              AIV Engineer
                       Manager                          Manager                                                                          Radiation analysis
                   Alexis Brandeker                Simonetta Chinellato           Maria Bergomi             Timothy Bandy                 Francesco Borsa             Gabriele Umbriaco
                                                                                    INAF-OAPD                    UBE                                                     INAF-OAPD
                         UST                           INAF-OAPD                                                                             INAF-OAB

                   TOU Document                     TOU Project Office           Visualization and                                     Mechanical Engineer,             AIV Engineer
                  Configuration Man                      Assistant                  Rendering                                           Thermal Analysis
                   Flavia Calderone                  Flavia Calderone               Marco Dima                                           Stefano Basso                 Daniela Vassallo
                      INAF-OACT                                                                                                                                          INAF-OAPD
                                                        INAF-OACT                   INAF-OAPD                                                INAF-OAB

  STM è
                                                   F-TOU Filters Product                                                                 Thermal Engineer,         Structural Tests Engineer
               TOU Mechanical Structure             Assurance Manager                                                                     Thermal Analysis
                  Product Assurance                        TBD                                                                             Sebastian Wolf              Daniel Schaedeli
                      Manager                                                                                                                                                 UBE
                                                           UST                                                                                  UBE

                     Configuration Control and                                                                                         Mechanical Engineer,
                                                                                                                                                                      Chief GSE Engineer

                                                                               ction
                          Quality Control                                                                                               Structural Analysis

                                                                  Serial Produ
                           Virginie Cessa                                                                                                 Martin Rieder                Luca Marafatto
                                                                                                                                                                          INAF-OAPD
                                UBE                                                                                                             UBE

                                                                                ted
                                                                   already star                                                       Optical Engineer, Optical

                                                                                , 5 FS
                      Material Parts & Process                                                                                             Performance                   AIV support

                                                                  1 PFM 2 5 FM
                          Timothy Bandy                                                                                                  Demetrio Magrin              Florian Hostettler
                                UBE                                                                                                                                          UBE
                                                                                                                                            INAF-OAPD

                                                                                                                                      Optical Engineer, F-TOU
                                                                                                                                        Filter Performance
                                                                                                                                          Göran Olofsson
                                                                                                                                                UST

     ç EM
OAA, IAPS, TNG
Payload: ICU Team
                    ç ICU EM#1
Science Preparation
                                                     100 000

                                                              PSM
                                                           Coordination
                                                               D. Pollacco

110 000                  120 000                         130 000                  140 000              160 000
                                                                Target / Field
                                                                                         Follow-up          Complementary
   Exoplanet Science           Stellar Science                 Characterization
                                                                                        Coordination           Science
      D. Pollacco               M.-J. Goupil                    and Selection
                                                                                          S. Udry              C. Aerts
                                                                  G. Piotto

                                                                                                            RSN2
              EXO-Arch                           EXO-Stars                                                  RSN3
              EXO-Young                                                                                     RSN4
              EXO-SPI
PLATO Input Catalog

          PLATO INPUT CATALOG
        UNIPD, OAPD, OAPA, OACT e SSDC

The all sky PLATO Input Catalogue        PLATO
AA/2021/40717                             Data
                                         Center
Exoplanets Science preparation
                                                                              110 000

                                                                                 Exoplanet Science
                                                                                         D. Pollacco

  111 000                  112 000                  113 000                       114 000                  115 000                   116 000                    117 000
      Coordination of           Specification of       Planet Candidate                                                                       PLATO
                                                                                         Transit Fitting         PLATO Data                                       Interfaces to Other
         Tools for             Planet Detection            Ranking                                                                        Interpretation
                                                                                              Tools            Specific Science                                     PSM WPs & PDC
    Lightcurve Filtering             Tools                Procedures                                                                     Specific Science
                                  J. Cabrera                                             Sz. Csizmadia           D. Pollacco                                           N. Santos
         I. Pagano                                        M. Deleuil                                                                         H. Rauer

  111 100                  112 100                  113 100                       114 100                  115 100                   116 100                    117 100
                                                                                                                                         Composition &               Planet Host
   Tools for Lightcurve       Transit Detection            Rank Planet                   Transit Curve       Astrophysical Noise
                                                                                                                                       Formation of Gas &          Characterisation
         Filtering                  Tools                  Candidates                   Modelling Tools             Source
                                                                                                                                           Ice Giants               Requirements
        S. Aigrain               J. Cabrera            A. Collier Cameron                Sz. Csizmadia            C. Watson                                          Adibekyan
                                                                                                                                            T. Guillot

  111 200                  112 200                  113 200                       114 200                  115 200                   116 200                    117 200
    Tools for Detecting       Detection of Single        False Positive                 Accurate Orbital                                                            Understanding
                                                                                                              Planetary System             Mass-radius
    & Filtering Residual     and Unusual Transit     Identification Through               Parameter                                                                 planets through
                                                                                                              Characterisation          Terrestrial Planets
    Instrumental Noise             Events              Centroid Analysis                 Determination                                                              their host stars
                                                                                                                 A. Sozzetti                  F. Sohl
         D. Pollacco             P. A. Strøm              A. Santerne                     A. Santerne                                                                  Van Eylen

                           112 300                  113 300                       114 300                  115 300                   116 300
                                Detection of
                                                       Astrophysical False          Rossiter-McLaughlin           Planet-Star         Planetary Formation
                             Exoplanet Systems
                                                            Positives                 Modelling Tools            Interactions         and Orbital Evolution
                             via Reflected Light
                                                       A. Collier Cameron               G. Hébrard                 S. Mathis               R. Nelson
                                 J.-M. Desert

                           112 400                                                                         115 400                   116 400
                                                                                                                                         Atmospheres of
                               Other Detection                                                                Transits of Close-In
                                                                                                                                        PLATO Terrestrial
                                  Methods                                                                          Objects
                                                                                                                                              Planets
                                  R. Silvotti                                                                     C. Haswell
                                                                                                                                           J. L. Grenfell

                           112 500                                                                         115 500                   116 500
                                                                                                                                         PLATO Habitable
                                Multi-planet                                                                    Non-Transiting
                                                                                                                                           Zone Planets
                                 Systems                                                                       Planets via REBs
                                                                                                                                            M. Güdel /
                                S. Desidera                                                                       D. Barrado
                                                                                                                                            H. Lammer

                           112 600                                                                         115 600                   116 600
                               Transit Timing                                                                  Composition and              Dynamical
                             Variations / Transit                                                            Interior Evolution of     Interactions in Multi-
                             Duration Variations                                                              Terrestrial Planets         Planet Systems
                               V. Nascimbeni                                                                       S. Werner                 J. Laskar

                                                                                                           115 700

                                                                                                              Planet Occurrence
                                                                                                                     Rates
                                                                                                                 V. Van Eylen
Stellar Science Preparation
Follow-up Preparation
                                                                           140 000

                                                                                  Follow-up
                                                                                 Coordination
                                                                                         S. Udry

141 000                 142 000                    143 000                     144 000                  145 000                   146 000                   147 000                 148 000
     Strategy and                                                                    Higher Angular                                                              Perfomances
                                                        Time Critical                                    Additional Exoplanet                                                         Interfaces to Other
      Operation              RV Follow-Up                                              Resolution                                      Spectroscopy            Assessment and
                                                        Photometry                                            Follow-Up                                                               PSM WPs and PDC
     Preparation              F. Bouchy                                                  Imaging                                         A. Hatzes           Follow-Up Efficiency
                                                          R. Alonso                                            X. Bonfils                                                                   S. Udry
      D. Pollacco                                                                      S. Desidera                                                                  S. Udry

141 100                 142 100                    143 100                     144 100                  145 100                   146 100
                            Radial Velocity                                                                 Transmission          Activity Indicators and
  Target Distribution                                Photometry Specific             Imaging Analysis
                           Computation and                                                                  Spectroscopy           Doppler Information
    Requirements                                           Tools                          Tools
                         Global Analysis Tools                                                               Follow-up                on Active Stars
       I. Ribas                                           H. Deeg                       A. Vigan
                             D. Segransan                                                                   D. Ehrenreich                 C. Lovis

141 200                 142 200                    143 200                     144 200                  145 200                   146 200
  Aids for Optimizing
                                                    Photometric Follow-               Single-Epoch        Secondary Eclipse
    Photometric and       First Radial Velocity                                                                                      Tools for Spectral
                                                       Up with Small                 Seeing-Limited      and Phase Variation
     Spectroscopic        Screening [≥10 m/s]                                                                                          Classification
                                                        Telescopes                       Imaging            Spectroscopy
     Measurements              E. Guenther                                                                                              L. Buchhave
                                                        G. Wuchterl                  V. Nascimbeni            R. Alonso
        J. Colomé

141 300                 142 300                    143 300                     144 300                  145 300                   146 300
                         Intermediate Precision          Standard                    Reconnaissance     Developing Techniques
      Information                                                                                                                        Infrared
                         Radial Velocity Follow-        Photometric                  High Resolution       for Atmosphere
        Transfer                                                                                                                       Spectroscopy
                              Up [3-5 m/s]              Observations                     Imaging          Characterisation
       F. Villardell                                                                                                                    P. Figueira
                               C. Moutou                 R. Alonso                      M. Janson              X. Bonfils

141 400                 142 400                    143 400                     144 400                  145 400                   146 400
                         Very High-Precision RV      Very High Precision
     Planet Yield                                                                     High Contrast      Rossiter-McLaughlin        Spectropolarimetric
                            Measurements                Photometric
    Determination                                                                        Imaging                Effect                  Follow-up
                                [≤1 m/s]               Observations
      Y. Alibert                                                                         D. Mesa             G. Hébrard                   P. Petit
                                 F. Pepe                   E. Palle

                        142 500                                                144 500                  145 500
                            Infrared Radial                                                              Additional Long Term
                                                                                       Candidate
                                Velocity                                                                      Follow-Up
                                                                                      Classification
                            Measurements                                                                (RV and Transit Timing)
                                                                                       M. Bonavita
                              T. Forveille                                                                     F. Bouchy
Complementary Science
Programmazione
         TOU è CDR going on
         ICU è CDR ready to start
         Critical Milestone è KOM July 2021
Leadership
                                         Steering                                          About
                                        Committee                 PLATO Mission             750
                                                                   Consortium             members

                          PM                     PI & co-PI

                                       PSWT                    PMC             PMC Science
  12 members including:                                        Board             Team
  I. Pagano, INAF
  G. Piotto, UNIPD                PI: H. Rauer, DLR
  R. Ragazzoni, INAF              Co-PI: I. Pagano, INAF                          Co-Is (TBD)
                                  Co-PI: M. Mass-Hesse, INTA
                      PAYLOAD
                                                                  20 members including:
                    Camera Team                                   I. Pagano, INAF
L. Valenziano                                                     G. Piotto, UNIPD
F. Santoli
N. Gorius
D. Brienza
CHEOPS
Isabella Pagano e Valerio Nascimbeni
S-class mission:
                      S is not for “Simple”
      “Small” Budget                     Short time                Several countries
                                      milestone          when
            D A E B
        I                            call issued        Mar 2012

                                    call answered       Jun 2012

        C          ES
                                  mission selected      Nov 2012

        H          A              mission adopted       Feb 2014

                                 instrument delivered   Feb 2019

                                       launch           Dec 2019

                             •    4–5 years development
 •   total budget: ~105 M€                                         •   11 countries & ESA
                                 time
 •   ESA: 50 M€                                                    •   ~30 institutions

Top Science was expected and is actually done!
Il Satellite CHEOPS
From Europe
to Kourou
Il Telescopio
                                                       Progetto ottico
                                                  Costruzione delle ottiche
                                                Integrazione dello strumento
                                              Test funzionamento e prestazioni

                                    300 m m

   Diametro dello specchio: 33 cm
       Peso strumento: 60 kg
Isabella Pagano         Roberto Ragazzoni      Giampaolo Piotto   Valerio Nascimbeni Gaetano Scandariato        Luca Borsato           Giuseppe Leto                 Giovanni Bruno
    INAF Catania             INAF Padova           Univ. Padova        INAF Padova        INAF Catania            INAF Padova             INAF Catania                  INAF Catania
  Resp. Nazionale        Instrument Scientist     Membro dello        Membro dello       Membro dello           Team Scientifico        Team Scientifico              Team Scientifico
Project Manager del         del Telescopio         Science Team        Science Team       Science Team
     Telescopio           Membro del Board
 Membro del Board                                                                        Vikash Singh                                          Elisabetta Tommasi
                                                                                        Univ. Catania                                                           ASI
                                                                                        INAF Catania                                                Resp. Accordo
                                                                                     Team Scientifico                                                   Scientifico

                                                                                                                                              Mario Salatti
                                                                                    Daniela Sicilia                                           ASI
                                                                                    Univ. Padova                                              Project Manager
                                                                                    INAF Catania                                              Contratto Industriale
                                                                                    Team Scientifico                                          Steering Committee

  Marco Dima          Davide Greggio      Luca Marafatto       Valentina Viotto   Demetrio Magrin      Matteo Munari        Jacopo Farinato      Maria Bergomi           Federico Biondi
  INAF Padova          INAF Padova         INAF Padova           INAF Padova        INAF Padova         INAF Catania          INAF Padova         INAF Padova             INAF Padova
   Rendering          Progetto Ottico     Progetto Ottico    System Engineer del Progetto Ottico del Analisi Luce Diffusa    Interfacce del     AIV del Telescopio      AIV del Telescopio
                                                                  Telescopio         Telescopio                                Telescopio
The Team
INAF

• OACT

• OAPD
          • 28 people (23 INAF/ 5 associated)
• OAPA    • In the period 2021-2023
              • 5 FTE/yr INAF
• OATO
              • 1.5 FTE/yr associated
• FGG

UNIPD

SSDC
2012-2013                                               2013-2018

                                            Improving
                                   Ancillary radii
                                     16%       6%
                                                  Characterising
                                                   atmospheres
     Finding    Improving                              26%
     transits     radii
       50%        50%       Exploring new
                               planets             Uncovering
                                 29%              new features
                                                      6%
                                             Finding
                                             transits
                                               17%
1

Some early science results
1) Measurement of the dayside
   temperature (3435±27 K) and true       δ = 88 ± 4 ppm
   orbital obliquity (Ψ=85°±4°) of the
   hot-Jupiter WASP-189b (Lendl+
   2020)                                       2
2) Full reconstruction of the dynamical                        3
   architecture of a six-planet system
   locked in a chain of Laplace
   resonances (2:4:6:9:12), including
   mass and density measurements
   (Leleu+ 2021)
3) Discovery of an additional 2 R⊕
   planet in a multiple system hosted
   by the bright star HD 108236
   (Bonfanti+ 2021)
Some early science results                                                  4

4) Characterization of a planetary system hosted by
a naked-eye star (Nu2 Lup), including the discovery
of a transiting, mildly-irradiated super-Earth
amenable of a detailed atmospheric                                                                         0 2 1
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Criticità
• Ricercatori e ingegneri di altissimo profilo
     • competenze maturate all'interno e all'esterno dell'ente.
     • E' fondamentale trattenere all'interno queste competenze spesso difficili da reperire.

• Per mettere a frutto un giusto ritorno dell'investimento prodotto dalla nostra nazione nel progetto occorre
  avere una generazione di ricercatori e ricercatrici pronti all'utilizzo dei dati della missione.
     • Il campo esopianeti è molto attrattivo per i giovani a inizio di carriera.
     • Occorre non farli scappare e essere capaci di attrarne da fuori.

• Per PLATO un aspetto che farà la differenza durante la fase operativa sarà la
  capacità di partecipare da leader alla campagna ground based di follow-up, che è parte
  intrinseca della missione.
• L'INAF parte in condizione di vantaggio grazie alla presenza di HARPS-N al TNG. Occorre che esso sia
  disponibile a INAF quando PLATO sarà operative.
Punti di forza
• L’Italia è al top sui sistemi ottici per lo spazio: sinergia da rafforzare tra INAF e aziende
• La comunità esoplanetologica italiana, che si è aggregata intorno al 2009 proprio grazie alla selezione di
  PLATO da parte di ESA per lo studio di fattibilità, e che ha proseguito insieme a crescere con l'opportunità
  giunta nel 2012 quanto la dirigenza INAF ha chiesto di valutare la proposta di installare HARPS-N al TNG, è
  oggi numerosa, rilevante a livello internazionale, piena di giovani promettenti, e coinvolta oltre che in PLATO
  in progetti di punta per lo studio degli esopianeti quali le missioni Cheops e Ariel, gli strumenti Espresso,
  SHARK-VIR e SHARK-NIR, spaziando dallo studio delle architetture e proprietà fisiche dei sistemi planetari
  (EXO-Arch), alla formazione ed evoluzione iniziale degli stessi (EXO-Young), alle atmosfere dei pianeti (EXO-
  Atm), alle caratteristiche dell'interazione stella-pianeta (EXO-SPI), allo studio delle proprietà stellari che
  servono a vincolare con precisione i parametri planetari (EXO-Stars).
• Questa comunità è cresciuta grazie ai finanziamenti ricevuti dai Progetti Premiali WOW (PI. G. Micela) e
  FRONTIERA (PI I. Pagano) che sono stati gestiti in modo da includere e rafforzare il tema di ricerca e creare
  massa critica per incidere nell'ambito delle collaborazioni internazionali.
• Altri finanziamenti sono stati ottenuti grazie a PRIN INAF, PRIN Universitari e bandi ASI più specificatamente
  mirati a focalizzare precisi temi di ricerca.
• Assicurare continuità nei finanziamenti della ricerca di "oggi" per essere sempre più preparati a quella di
  "domani" è una delle criticità più rilevanti anche per PLATO.
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