Detecting and Sizing the Earth with PLATO: A Feasibility Study Based on Solar Data - Simulated Data

Set of artificial light curves simulating the transit of Earth in front of the Sun as it would be seen by PLATO, if PLATO were in a distant stellar system. The stellar noise model was based on HMI observations, but only contains variations with characterstic timescales of less than 5 hours. The PLATO instrumental noise model was simulated using PLATOSim. Each light curve contains a transit every 24 hours with the first transit being centred at 0.5 days.Naming convention:The file name first specifies at which latitute on the solar disk the transit occured. latitute0 refers to a transit across the solar equator, latitute50 to a transit with impact parameter b=0.5.Secondly, the file name specifies the V-magnitude of the target star. 8.5 refers to the target star having a V-mag of 8.5.Example: latitude75_10.5.csv containts the simulated light curve for a target star with V-mag 10.5 and the planet transiting across the stellar disk with an impact parameter of b=0.75.Column description:time: time since the beginning of the measurement in secondsCoAdd: co-added flux in absolute units as measured by PLATO assuming an observation by all 24 cameras