End-to-end simulations as an indispentable tool for PLATO's core and complimentary science program
Description
The uninterrupted and high-precision photometry provided by space-borne instruments such as PLATO
require long preparatory phases. Versatile siulations that accomudate PLATO’s innovative payload design
are thus needed to continuously assist with the design, assessment, and validation of the instrument.
Realisitic and reliable simulations are likewise essential in order to shape and test the processing pipeline
which will, together with ground-based RV follow-up observations, deliver the necessary unforseen stellar
and planetary parameters needed for system characterisation. Accordingly, we here present PlatoSim, a
dedicated end-to-end PLATO camera simulator with the ability to simulate all of the expected observations
of the PLATO space mission, including image time series, meta data, house-keeping data, and light curves.
The strong predictive power of PlatoSim will be shown through its diverse applicability and contribution
to numerous working groups within the PLATO Mission Consortium. Aside the core science program, 8%
of the mission operation will be used on complimentary sciences. Thus, a suite of new simulation studies
will be used to highlight the scientific potential of the PLATO complimentary science program – including
stellar pulsators (e.g. γ Doradus star, δ Scuti stars, Cepheids, and RR Lyrae), eclipsing binaries, transient
events (e.g. super massive black hole binaries, γ-ray bursts, and stellar activity), and synergies of these
to the core science program. PLATO’s ability to photometrically detect a suite of variable phenomenae
will be placed in the context to how simulations with PlatoSim quantitatively can help to push beyond
current theoretical barriers of stellar structure and evolution prior to mission launch.
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