Autocompatibility testing during vacuum test campaign of the PLATO flight model cameras

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PLATO is a European Space Agency medium class mission, whose launch is foreseen for 2026. Its primary goal is to discover and characterize terrestrial exoplanets orbiting the habitable zone of their host stars. This goal will be reached with a set of 26 wide field-of-view cameras mounted on a common optical bench. The PLATO camera flight models (FMs) are being tested at three different test-houses, namely the Netherlands Institute for Space Research (SRON), Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale (IAS) and Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (INTA). Here we present the results of autocompatibility testing obtained during cryogenic-vacuum tests campaigns on the PLATO Camera 'Normal' FMs. The autocompatibility testing aims to analyse possible interferences on the CCD readout signal due to camera operations. Camera operations that could be potential causes of interference are identified in the Thermal control system (TCS) heater lines pulses, and multiple CCD readouts (relevant for PLATO 'Fast' Cameras only).

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