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Table 1

Pre-defined properties of the PLATO CCDs in the focal plane.

Input parameter Value

CCD size 4510 × 4510 px
Field size 400 × 400 px
Pixel resolutiona 1/128
Transmision efficiency 0.638466
Quantum efficiencyb 85%
Exposure time 22 s
Charge transfer time 3 s
Pixel scale 15 arcsec
Pixel size 18 μm
Collecting area 113.09 cm2
Flux of mλ = 0 star 4 962 700 photons s-1 cm-1
Digital saturation 16 384 ADU
Full well pixel capacity 1 243 000 e
Gain 58 e/ADU
Electronic offset 100 ADU
Readout noise 23 e
Flatfield pixel-to-pixel noise 1.6%

Notes.

(a)

The sub-pixels per pixel parameter has been set to 128.

(b)

Constant over the entire wavelength range, the value was provided by the CCD manufacturer e2V.

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