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PLATO's Earth Hunt Has a Measured Detection Frontier
Simulated long-baseline photometry put one-Earth-radius habitable-zone candidates near 40-percent recovery around the field's M dwarfs.
Summary
Simulated long-baseline photometry put one-Earth-radius habitable-zone candidates near 40-percent recovery around the field's M dwarfs.
An end-to-end pipeline study forecasts about four habitable-zone Earths and seven super-Earths among 16,929 M dwarfs in PLATO's LOPS2 field. At the adopted detection floor, completeness was 54 percent and the false-alarm rate 6 percent; the yield remains a simulation-based forecast, not detected planets.
Why it matters
Simulated long-baseline photometry put one-Earth-radius habitable-zone candidates near 40-percent recovery around the field's M dwarfs.
Limits and context
- At the adopted detection floor, completeness was 54 percent and the false-alarm rate 6 percent; the yield remains a simulation-based forecast, not detected planets.
Key claims
Simulated long-baseline photometry put one-Earth-radius habitable-zone candidates near 40-percent recovery around the field's M dwarfs.
Qualification: At the adopted detection floor, completeness was 54 percent and the false-alarm rate 6 percent; the yield remains a simulation-based forecast, not detected planets.
Evidence: source-2026-09-08-021
Sources
- arXiv preprint 2609.04887arXiv · primary research
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