开普勒-16：一颗凌星环双星行星
地球与行星天体物理
2015-05-30 v1
摘要
我们报告了一颗围绕一对低质量恒星运行的行星的探测结果。开普勒航天器的数据揭示了该行星凌过两颗恒星的现象，此外还观测到了两颗恒星之间的相互掩食，这为三个天体的绝对尺度提供了精确约束。该行星的质量和大小与土星相当，围绕其两颗母星运行在近乎圆形的229天轨道上。这两颗掩食恒星的质量分别为太阳的20%和69%，运行在偏心的41天轨道上。三个天体的运动都被限制在单一平面0.5度范围内，表明该行星形成于环双星盘中。
引用
@article{arxiv.1109.3432,
title = {Kepler-16: A Transiting Circumbinary Planet},
author = {Laurance R. Doyle and Joshua A. Carter and Daniel C. Fabrycky and Robert W. Slawson and Steve B. Howell and Joshua N. Winn and Jerome A. Orosz and Andrej Prsa and William F. Welsh and Samuel N. Quinn and David Latham and Guillermo Torres and Lars A. Buchhave and Geoffrey W. Marcy and Jonathan J. Fortney and Avi Shporer and Eric B. Ford and Jack J. Lissauer and Darin Ragozzine and Michael Rucker and Natalie Batalha and Jon M. Jenkins and William J. Borucki and David Koch and Christopher K. Middour and Jennifer R. Hall and Sean McCauliff and Michael N. Fanelli and Elisa V. Quintana and Matthew J. Holman and Douglas A. Caldwell and Martin Still and Robert P. Stefanik and Warren R. Brown and Gilbert A. Esquerdo and Sumin Tang and Gabor Furesz and John C. Geary and Perry Berlind and Michael L. Calkins and Donald R. Short and Jason H. Steffen and Dimitar Sasselov and Edward W. Dunham and William D. Cochran and Alan Boss and Michael R. Haas and Derek Buzasi and Debra Fischer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1109.3432},
year = {2015}
}
备注
Science, in press; for supplemental material see http://www.sciencemag.org/content/suppl/2011/09/14/333.6049.1602.DC1/1210923.Doyle.SOM.pdf