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Recent Kepler Results On Circumbinary Planets

Year: 2012

Type: article

Abstract: Ranked near the top of the long list of exciting discoveries made with NASA's Kepler photometer is the detection of transiting circumbinary planets. In just over a year the number of such planets went from zero to seven, including a multi-planet system with one of the planets in the habitable zone (Kepler-47). We are quickly learning to better detect and characterize these planets, including the recognition of their transit timing and duration variation “smoking gun” signature. Even with only a handful of such planets, some exciting trends are emerging.

Source: Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union

DOI: 10.1017/s1743921313012684

Authors: William F. Welsh, Jerome A. Orosz, Joshua A. Carter, Daniel C. Fabrycky, the Kepler Team

Institutions: San Diego State University, Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian, University of California, Santa Cruz, University of Chicago

Language: English

Topic: Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies

Subfield: Astronomy and Astrophysics

Field: Physics and Astronomy

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

Funders: National Science Foundation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Space Telescope Science Institute, Science Mission Directorate

Awards: THE P.I. PROPOSES TO CONTINUE TO USE STATE-OF-THE-ART TRANSIT MODELING SOFTWARE TO MEASURE THE PROPERTIES OF KEPLERDISCOVERED EXOPLANETS. THE P.I. WI, Stellar Astrophysics Via Exoplanet Transits