[astro-ph.EP] The upcoming launch of the PLATO mission will open a new area of exoplanetary research by probing transiting exoplanets at long orbital periods around bright stars.

These planets will be amenable to follow-up observations, especially with the ESO telescopes as the first PLATO field is in the southern sky.

In this paper we listed the lessons we learned by monitoring the bright HIP41378 multi-planetary system over one decade via both radial-velocity and transit observations. These lessons are important for the follow-up strategy of PLATO transiting exoplanets.

Alexandre Santerne, Salomé Grouffal, Stéphane Udry

Comments: Accepted for publication in The ESO Messenger
Subjects: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP); Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
Cite as: arXiv:2606.22996 [astro-ph.EP] (or arXiv:2606.22996v1 [astro-ph.EP] for this version)
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2606.22996
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From: Alexandre Santerne
[v1] Mon, 22 Jun 2026 08:13:40 UTC (579 KB)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.22996

Astrobiology, exoplanet,

Explorers Club Fellow, ex-NASA Space Station Payload manager/space biologist, Away Teams, Journalist, Lapsed climber, Synaesthete, Na’Vi-Jedi-Freman-Buddhist-mix, ASL, Devon Island and Everest Base Camp...

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