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Binary stars are ubiquitous; the majority of solar-type stars exist in binaries. Exoplanet occurrence rate is suppressed in binaries, but some multiples do still host planets. Binaries cause observational biases in planet parameters, with…

Context. The presence of a stellar companion can strongly influence the architecture and long-term stability of planetary systems. Motivated by the discovery of exoplanets exhibiting extremely high eccentricities (e >= 0.8) in systems with…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-11 Milenne Ávila-Bravo , Carolina Charalambous , Claudia Aguilera-Gómez

Astronomers have discovered that both planets and binaries are abundant throughout the Galaxy. In combination, we know of over 100 planets in binary and higher-order multi-star systems, in both circumbinary and circumstellar configurations.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-05 David V. Martin

Continuing our study of the effects of secular resonances on the formation of terrestrial planets in moderately close binary stars, we present here the results of an extensive numerical simulations of the formation of these objects.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-29 Nader Haghighipour , Michael Andrews

Roughly half of Solar-type planet hosts have stellar companions, so understanding how these binary companions affect the formation and evolution of planets is an important component to understanding planetary systems overall. Measuring the…

Almost half of the stellar systems in the solar neighborhood are made up of multiple stars. In multiple-star systems, planet formation is under the dynamical influence of stellar companions, and the planet occurrence rate is expected to be…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Ji Wang , Debra A. Fischer , Ji-Wei Xie , David R. Ciardi

The frequency of planets in binaries is an important issue in the field of extrasolar planet studies, because of its relevance in estimating of the global planet population of our Galaxy and the clues it can give to our understanding of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Bonavita , S. Desidera

Although it is commonly agreed that the presence of a close stellar companion is likely to affect planet formation and evolution, the precise effects and their actual impact on planet occurrence and properties are still debated. In…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-19 A. Eggenberger , S. Udry

Planet formation is often considered in the context of one circumstellar disk around one star. Yet stellar binary systems are ubiquitous, and thus a substantial fraction of all potential planets must form and evolve in more complex,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-16 Trent J. Dupuy , Adam L. Kraus , Kaitlin M. Kratter , Aaron C. Rizzuto , Andrew W. Mann , Daniel Huber , Michael J. Ireland

Close binaries suppress the formation of circumstellar (S-type) planets and therefore significantly bias the inferred planet occurrence rates and statistical trends. After compiling various radial velocity and high-resolution imaging…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-23 Maxwell Moe , Kaitlin M. Kratter

Estimating the effect binarity can have on planet-formation is of crucial importance, as almost half of field stars reside in multiple systems. One effective way to assess this effect is to get an accurate picture of the population of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-13 Philippe Thebault , Danilo Bonanni

Observations from optical to centimeter wavelengths have demonstrated that multiple systems of two or more bodies is the norm at all stellar evolutionary stages. Multiple systems are widely agreed to result from the collapse and…

Dusty primordial disks surrounding young low-mass stars are revealing tracers of stellar and planetary formation. The evolution and lifetime of these disks define the boundary conditions of the mechanisms of planet formation. Stellar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-01 S. Daemgen , M. G. Petr-Gotzens , S. Correia

Although the sample of exoplanets in binaries has been greatly expanded, the sample heterogeneity and observational bias are obstacles toward a clear figure of exoplanet demographics in the binary environment. To overcome the obstacles, we…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-08 Xiang-Ning Su , Ji-Wei Xie , Ji-Lin Zhou , Philippe Thebault

Planet formation occurs around a wide range of stellar masses and stellar system architectures. An improved understanding of the formation process can be achieved by studying it across the full parameter space, particularly toward the…

Many recent observational studies have concluded that planetary systems commonly exist in multiple-star systems. At least ~20%, and presumably a larger fraction of the known extrasolar planetary systems are associated with one or more…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Genya Takeda , Ryosuke Kita , Frederic A. Rasio

The occurrence of planets in binary star systems has been investigated via a variety of techniques that sample a wide range of semi-major axes, but with a preponderance of such results applicable to planets with semi-major axes less than a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 B. Zuckerman

Recent observations of binary stars in the Galactic field show that the binary fraction and the mean orbital separation both decrease as a function of decreasing primary mass. We present $N$-body simulations of the effects of dynamical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Richard J. Parker , Michael R. Meyer

The recent discovery of planets orbiting main sequence binaries will provide crucial constraints for theories of binary and planet formation. The formation pathway for these planets is complicated by uncertainties in the formation mechanism…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Kaitlin M. Kratter , Andrew Shannon

Recent radial velocity and transit data discovered $\sim 100$ planets in binary or triple stellar systems out of the entire population of a few thousand known planets. Stellar companions are expected to strongly influence both the formation…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-05 Giacomo Fragione , Abraham Loeb , Idan Ginsburg