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Glossary of acronyms used throughout this article.

Acronym Description
asPIC All-sky PLATO input catalog (Montalto et al. 2021)
CVZ Continuous viewing zone
DEB Detached eclipsing binary
DIA Difference image analysis
EB Eclipsing binary
FOV Field of view
GC Globular cluster
GO PLATO guest observing program
HZ Habitable zone
LMC Large magellanic cloud
LOP Long-duration observation phase
LOPN LOP field North
LOPN0 Obsolete LOPN proposal (Nascimbeni et al. 2016)
LOPN1 Current LOPN proposal (this work)
LOPS LOP field south
LOPS0 Obsolete LOPS proposal (Nascimbeni et al. 2016)
LOPS1 Current LOPS proposal (this work)
NPF Obsolete acronym for LOPN
NSR Noise-to-signal ratio
OC Open cluster
P/L PLATO payload
PF PLATO field
PIC PLATO input catalog (Montalto et al. 2021)
PLATO PLAnetary transits and oscillations of stars (Rauer et al. 2014)
PPT PLATO performance team
PSF Point spread function
RV Radial velocity
S/N Signal-to-noise ratio
SOP Step and stare observation phase
SPF Obsolete acronym for LOPS
SRD PLATO scientific requirements document
SRJD PLATO scientific requirements justification document

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