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Table 3.
Description of the parameters of Eq. (2).
| Description | Symbol | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zodiacal light tabulated data | fZL | see Leinert et al. (1998) | S10 |
| Planck’s constant | h | 6.63 × 10−34 | J s |
| Speed of light in vacuum | c | 2.99 × 108 | m s−1 |
| Field of view solid angle (per pixel) | Ω | 4.2 × 10−9 | sr |
| Entrance pupil surface (per camera) | Θ | 113.1 | cm2 |
| Spectral range of PLATO telescopes | [λ1, λ2] | [500, 1000] | nm |
| Sun’s spectral irradiance | F⊙(λ) | E-490 spectrum | W cm−2 nm−1 |
| Correction factor for L2 point | fL2 | 0.975 | adim |
| Instrument vignetting | fvig | see Table 2 | adim |
| Reddening correction factor | fred(λ) | see Leinert et al. (1998) | adim |
| Spectral response of PLATO telescopes | S(λ) | see Fig. 6 | adim |
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