Kepler-47: A Transiting Circumbinary Multiplanet System

Author:

Orosz Jerome A.1,Welsh William F.1,Carter Joshua A.2,Fabrycky Daniel C.3,Cochran William D.4,Endl Michael4,Ford Eric B.5,Haghighipour Nader6,MacQueen Phillip J.4,Mazeh Tsevi7,Sanchis-Ojeda Roberto8,Short Donald R.1,Torres Guillermo2,Agol Eric9,Buchhave Lars A.1011,Doyle Laurance R.12,Isaacson Howard13,Lissauer Jack J.14,Marcy Geoffrey W.13,Shporer Avi151617,Windmiller Gur1,Barclay Thomas1418,Boss Alan P.19,Clarke Bruce D.1214,Fortney Jonathan3,Geary John C.2,Holman Matthew J.2,Huber Daniel14,Jenkins Jon M.1214,Kinemuchi Karen1418,Kruse Ethan2,Ragozzine Darin2,Sasselov Dimitar2,Still Martin1418,Tenenbaum Peter1214,Uddin Kamal1420,Winn Joshua N.8,Koch David G.14,Borucki William J.14

Affiliation:

1. Astronomy Department, San Diego State University, 5500 Campanile Drive, San Diego, CA 92182, USA.

2. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.

3. Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA.

4. McDonald Observatory, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712–0259, USA.

5. Astronomy Department, University of Florida, 211 Bryant Space Sciences Center, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA.

6. Institute for Astronomy and NASA Astrobiology Institute University of Hawaii-Manoa, 2680 Woodlawn Drive, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA.

7. School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel.

8. Department of Physics, and Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

9. Department of Astronomy, BOX 351580, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.

10. Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Juliane Maries vej 30, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark.

11. Centre for Star and Planet Formation, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Ø ster Voldgade 5-7, 1350 Copenhagen, Denmark.

12. SETI Institute, 189 Bernardo Avenue, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.

13. Astronomy Department, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.

14. NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA.

15. Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network, 6740 Cortona Drive, Suite 102, Santa Barbara, CA 93117, USA.

16. Department of Physics, Broida Hall, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA.

17. Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA.

18. Bay Area Environmental Research Institute, Inc., 560 Third Street West, Sonoma, CA 95476, USA.

19. Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution for Science, 5241 Broad Branch Road NW, Washington, DC 20015–1305, USA.

20. Orbital Sciences Corporation, 45101 Warp Drive, Dulles, VA 20166, USA.

Abstract

A Pair of Planets Around a Pair of Stars Most of the planets we know about orbit a single star; however, most of the stars in our galaxy are not single. Based on data from the Kepler space telescope, Orosz et al. (p. 1511 , published online 28 August) report the detection of a pair of planets orbiting a pair of stars. These two planets are the smallest of the known transiting circumbinary planets and have the shortest and longest orbital periods. The outer planet resides in the habitable zone—the “goldilocks” region where the temperatures could allow liquid water to exist. This discovery establishes that, despite the chaotic environment around a close binary star, a system of planets can form and persist.

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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