@article{31d35257991749fb9231bdfa97f1e9f5,
title = "The all-sky PLATO input catalogue",
abstract = "Context. The ESA PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars (PLATO) mission will search for terrestrial planets in the habitable zone of solartype stars. Because of telemetry limitations, PLATO targets need to be pre-selected. Aims. In this paper, we present an all sky catalogue that will be fundamental to selecting the best PLATO fields and the most promising target stars, deriving their basic parameters, analysing the instrumental performances, and then planing and optimising follow-up observations. This catalogue also represents a valuable resource for the general definition of stellar samples optimised for the search of transiting planets. Methods. We used Gaia Data Release 2 astrometry and photometry and 3D maps of the local interstellar medium to isolate FGK (V ≥ 13) and M (V ≥ 16) dwarfs and subgiant stars. Results. We present the first public release of the all-sky PLATO input catalogue (asPIC1.1) containing a total of 2 675 539 stars including 2 378 177 FGK dwarfs and subgiants and 297 362 M dwarfs. The median distance in our sample is 428 pc for FGK stars and 146 pc for M dwarfs, respectively. We derived the reddening of our targets and developed an algorithm to estimate stellar fundamental parameters (Teff, radius, mass) from astrometric and photometric measurements. Conclusions. We show that the overall (internal+external) uncertainties on the stellar parameter determined in the present study are -230K (4%) for the effective temperatures, -0.1 R (9%) for the stellar radii, and -0.1 M (11%) for the stellar mass. We release a special target list containing all known planet hosts cross-matched with our catalogue.",
keywords = "Astrometry, Catalogs, ISM: structure, Planets and satellites: terrestrial planets, Stars: fundamental parameters, Techniques: photometric",
author = "M. Montalto and G. Piotto and Marrese, {P. M.} and V. Nascimbeni and L. Prisinzano and V. Granata and S. Marinoni and S. Desidera and S. Ortolani and C. Aerts and E. Alei and G. Altavilla and S. Benatti and A. B{\"o}rner and J. Cabrera and R. Claudi and M. Deleuil and M. Fabrizio and L. Gizon and Goupil, {M. J.} and Heras, {A. M.} and D. Magrin and L. Malavolta and Mas-Hesse, {J. M.} and I. Pagano and C. Paproth and M. Pertenais and D. Pollacco and R. Ragazzoni and G. Ramsay and H. Rauer and S. Udry",
note = "Funding Information: the financial support of INAF (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica), Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma, ASI (Agenzia Spaziale Italiana) under contract to INAF: ASI 2014-049-R.0 dedicated to SSDC. Funding Information: Acknowledgements. The authors are grateful to the referee, Keivan Stassun, for reading the manuscript and providing constructive comments and suggestions. This work presents results from the European Space Agency (ESA) space mission PLATO. The PLATO payload, the PLATO Ground Segment and PLATO data processing are joint developments of ESA and the PLATO Mission Consortium (PMC). Funding for the PMC is provided at national levels, in particular by countries participating in the PLATO Multilateral Agreement (Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Norway, and United Kingdom) and institutions from Brazil. Members of the PLATO Consortium can be found at https://platomission.com/. The ESA PLATO mission website is https://www.cosmos.esa.int/plato. We thank the teams working for PLATO for all their work. M. M., G. P., V. N., V. G., L. P., S. D., S. O., S. B., R. C., L. M., I. P. acknowledge support from PLATO ASI-INAF agreements n.2015-019-R0-2015 and n. 2015-019-R.1-2018. We would like to acknowl- edge the financial support of INAF (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica), Osser-vatorio Astronomico di Roma, ASI (Agenzia Spaziale Italiana) under contract to INAF: ASI 2014-049-R.0 dedicated to SSDC. This work has made use of data from the European Space Agency (ESA) mission Gaia (https://www. cosmos.esa.int/gaia), processed by the Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (DPAC, https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/dpac/ consortium). Part of this work has been carried out within the framework of the National Centre of Competence in Research PlanetS supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation. E. A. acknowledges the financial support of the SNSF. C.A. acknowledges support from the KU Leuven Research Council (grant C16/18/005: PARADISE) and from the BELgian federal Science Policy Office (BELSPO) through PRODEX grants Gaia and PLATO. JMMH is funded by Spanish State Research Agency grants PID2019-107061GB-C61 and MDM-2017-0737 (Unidad de Excelencia Mar{\'i}a de Maeztu CAB). This work has made use of data from the European Space Agency (ESA) mission Gaia (https://www.cosmos.esa.int/gaia), processed by the Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (DPAC, https://www.cosmos.esa.int/ web/gaia/dpac/consortium). Funding for the DPAC has been provided by national institutions, in particular the institutions participating in the Gaia Multilateral Agreement. This paper includes data that has been provided by AAO Data Central (datacentral.aao.gov.au). The GALAH survey is based on observations made at the Australian Astronomical Observatory, under programmes A/2013B/13, A/2014A/25, A/2015A/19, A/2017A/18. We acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which the AAT stands, the Gamilaraay people, and pay our respects to elders past and present. The full catalogue of known planets/candidates retrieved by Exo-MerCat is registered as a Virtual Observatory resource and it is available on TOPCAT (Taylor 2005). It can be also provided and customized by a dedicated User Interface, available from a public GitHub repository (https://gitlab.com/eleonoraalei/exo-mercat-gui). Some of the results in this paper have been derived using the HEALPix (G{\'o}rski et al. 2005) package. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2021 EDP Sciences. All rights reserved.",
year = "2021",
month = sep,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1051/0004-6361/202140717",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "653",
journal = "Astronomy and Astrophysics",
issn = "0004-6361",
publisher = "EDP Sciences",
}