Sentences with phrase «as circumbinary»
Planets like Kepler - 1647b in orbit around binary stars are known as circumbinary planets, and planet hunters spot them by looking for a dimming in the light from a star as the planet transits, or passes in front of the star from our perspective.
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New research from the University of Washington indicates that certain shot - period binary star systems eject circumbinary planets as a consequence of the host stars» evolution.
So - called circumbinary planets — those planets that orbit around a binary star, like the fictional Tatooine from the Star Wars — can be ejected off into space as a consequence of their stars» evolution, according to a new study to be published in the Astrophysical Journal (arXiv.org preprint).
As a result of this study, HD 284149 ABb therefore becomes the latest addition to the (short) list of brown dwarfs on wide circumbinary orbits, providing new evidence to support recent claims that object in such configuration occur with a similar frequency to wide companions to single stars.
The system's spectral energy distribution reveals a mid-infrared excess, which we model as thermal emission from a small amount of dust located in the inner cavity of a circumbinary disk.
Kepler - 16b was the Kepler telescope's first discovery of a planet in a «circumbinary» orbit — circling both stars, as opposed to just one, in a double - star system.