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.
William F. Welsh, Jerome A. Orosz, Joshua A. Carter, Daniel C. Fabrycky (Submitted on 28 Aug 2013)
Comments: To appear in “The Formation, Detection, and Characterization of Extrasolar Habitable Planets”, Proceedings of the IAU Symposium 293, Ed. Nader Haghighipour; 8 pages 4 figures
Subjects: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
Cite as: arXiv:1308.6328 [astro-ph.EP]
(or arXiv:1308.6328v1 [astro-ph.EP] for this version) Submission history From: William Welsh [view email] [v1] Wed, 28 Aug 2013 22:51:45 GMT (96kb)
