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Recent Kepler Results On Circumbinary Planets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 April 2014

William F. Welsh ,
Jerome A. Orosz ,
Joshua A. Carter ,
Daniel C. Fabrycky  and
the Kepler Team
William F. Welsh
Affiliation:
Astronomy Department, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 92182-1221USA email: [email protected]
Jerome A. Orosz
Affiliation:
Astronomy Department, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 92182-1221USA email: [email protected]
Joshua A. Carter
Affiliation:
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA 02138USA
Daniel C. Fabrycky
Affiliation:
Dept. of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064USA; and Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago, 5640 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637USA
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Abstract

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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.

Keywords

ExoplanetsEclipsing Binary StarsKepler
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 8 , Symposium S293: Formation, Detection, and Characterization of Extrasolar Habitable Planets , August 2012 , pp. 125 - 132
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2014 

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