Sentences with phrase «foreground eclipsing binary»
A blend may consist of a background or foreground eclipsing binary (or star - planet pair) whose eclipses are attenuated by the light of the candidate and possibly other stars within the photometric aperture.
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But other observations need to confirm the true planetary nature of these candidate events, because the observed dips may also be due to an eclipsing binary star in the background whose light blends with the foreground star studied by Kepler.