Viewing the PLATO Field Through the Lenses of TESS

The future ESA PLATO mission will be launched by the end of 2026. Aiming to detect terrestrial planets in habitable zones of bright, solar-like stars, PLATO will be observing stars in the Southern Field (LOPS2) for at least 2 years, which overlaps with TESS's continuous viewing zone. Since TESS will have observed this field for four years by the time of launch, we combine all information we can gather from available TESS data for the PLATO targets into a catalogue. We identify known systems in the LOPS2 field, including 76 confirmed transiting planet host stars, ~500 TESS planet candidate systems and ~2000 eclipsing binaries. To highlight the discovery space where PLATO will have the greatest potential for new exoplanet detections, we compute respective sensitivity maps for TESS and PLATO stars in the field. Finally, we indicate which stars are dominated by stellar activity by leveraging the machine learning classifier from the TESS Asteroseismic Science Consortium. In order to maximize the potential gains for the exoplanet community, we are creating a catalogue of all available TESS information that will provide insights of the PLATO target stars and aid to select and focus on the most promising targets, pre-launch of PLATO.