Kepler-47: A Transiting Circumbinary Multiplanet System

Kepler-47: A Transiting Circumbinary Multiplanet System

We report the detection of Kepler-47, a system consisting of two planets orbiting around an eclipsing pair of stars. The inner and outer planets have radii 3.0 and 4.6 times that of Earth, respectively. The binary star consists of a Sun-like star and a companion roughly one-third its size, orbiting...

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Main Authors: Orosz, Jerome A. (Author), Welsh, William F. (Author), Carter, Joshua Adam (Author), Fabrycky, Daniel C. (Author), Cochran, William D. (Author), Endl, Michael (Author), Ford, Eric B. (Author), Haghighipour, Nader (Author), MacQueen, Phillip J. (Author), Mazeh, Tsevi (Author), Sanchis Ojeda, Roberto (Contributor), Short, Donald R. (Author), Torres, Guillermo (Author), Agol, Eric (Author), Buchhave, Lars A. (Author), Doyle, Laurance R. (Author), Isaacson, Howard (Author), Lissauer, Jack J. (Author), Marcy, Geoffrey W. (Author), Shporer, Avi (Author), Windmiller, Gur (Author), Barclay, Thomas (Author), Boss, Alan P. (Author), Clarke, Bruce D. (Author), Fortney, Jonathan J. (Author), Geary, John C. (Author), Holman, Matthew J. (Author), Huber, Daniel (Author), Jenkins, Jon M. (Author), Kinemuchi, Karen (Author), Kruse, Ethan (Author), Ragozzine, Darin (Author), Sasselov, Dimitar (Author), Still, Martin (Author), Tenenbaum, Peter (Author), Uddin, Kamal (Author), Winn, Joshua Nathan (Contributor), Koch, David (Author), Borucki, William J. (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics (Contributor), MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research (Contributor)
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Language:English
Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2014-09-04T15:52:36Z.
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