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Transiting circumbinary planets Kepler-34 b and Kepler-35 b

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  • William F. Welsh

    (San Diego State University, 5500 Campanile Drive, San Diego, California 92182, USA)

  • Jerome A. Orosz

    (San Diego State University, 5500 Campanile Drive, San Diego, California 92182, USA)

  • Joshua A. Carter

    (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street)

  • Daniel C. Fabrycky

    (UCO/Lick Observatory, University of California)

  • Eric B. Ford

    (University of Florida, 211 Bryant Space Science Center)

  • Jack J. Lissauer

    (NASA Ames Research Center)

  • Andrej Prša

    (Villanova University, 800 E. Lancaster Avenue, Villanova, Pennsylvania 19085, USA)

  • Samuel N. Quinn

    (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street
    Georgia State University, PO Box 4106, Atlanta, Georgia 30302, USA)

  • Darin Ragozzine

    (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street)

  • Donald R. Short

    (San Diego State University, 5500 Campanile Drive, San Diego, California 92182, USA)

  • Guillermo Torres

    (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street)

  • Joshua N. Winn

    (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA)

  • Laurance R. Doyle

    (Carl Sagan Center for the Study of Life in the Universe, SETI Institute, 189 Bernardo Avenue, Mountain View, California 94043, USA)

  • Thomas Barclay

    (NASA Ames Research Center
    Bay Area Environmental Research Institute, Inc., 560 Third Street West, Sonoma, California 95476, USA)

  • Natalie Batalha

    (NASA Ames Research Center
    San Jose State University, One Washington Square, San Jose, California 95192, USA)

  • Steven Bloemen

    (Instituut voor Sterrenkunde, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200D, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium)

  • Erik Brugamyer

    (McDonald Observatory, The University of Texas at Austin)

  • Lars A. Buchhave

    (Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen University, Juliane Maries Vej 30, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
    Centre for Star and Planet Formation, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, DK-1350 Copenhagen, Denmark)

  • Caroline Caldwell

    (McDonald Observatory, The University of Texas at Austin)

  • Douglas A. Caldwell

    (Carl Sagan Center for the Study of Life in the Universe, SETI Institute, 189 Bernardo Avenue, Mountain View, California 94043, USA)

  • Jessie L. Christiansen

    (NASA Ames Research Center
    Carl Sagan Center for the Study of Life in the Universe, SETI Institute, 189 Bernardo Avenue, Mountain View, California 94043, USA)

  • David R. Ciardi

    (NASA Exoplanet Science Institute/Caltech, 770 South Wilson Avenue)

  • William D. Cochran

    (McDonald Observatory, The University of Texas at Austin)

  • Michael Endl

    (McDonald Observatory, The University of Texas at Austin)

  • Jonathan J. Fortney

    (University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California 95064, USA)

  • Thomas N. Gautier III

    (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 4800 Oak Grove Drive)

  • Ronald L. Gilliland

    (Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive)

  • Michael R. Haas

    (NASA Ames Research Center)

  • Jennifer R. Hall

    (Orbital Sciences Corporation/NASA Ames Research Center)

  • Matthew J. Holman

    (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street)

  • Andrew W. Howard

    (University of California)

  • Steve B. Howell

    (NASA Ames Research Center)

  • Howard Isaacson

    (University of California)

  • Jon M. Jenkins

    (NASA Ames Research Center
    Carl Sagan Center for the Study of Life in the Universe, SETI Institute, 189 Bernardo Avenue, Mountain View, California 94043, USA)

  • Todd C. Klaus

    (Orbital Sciences Corporation/NASA Ames Research Center)

  • David W. Latham

    (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street)

  • Jie Li

    (NASA Ames Research Center
    Carl Sagan Center for the Study of Life in the Universe, SETI Institute, 189 Bernardo Avenue, Mountain View, California 94043, USA)

  • Geoffrey W. Marcy

    (University of California)

  • Tsevi Mazeh

    (School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University)

  • Elisa V. Quintana

    (NASA Ames Research Center
    Carl Sagan Center for the Study of Life in the Universe, SETI Institute, 189 Bernardo Avenue, Mountain View, California 94043, USA)

  • Paul Robertson

    (McDonald Observatory, The University of Texas at Austin)

  • Avi Shporer

    (Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network, 6740 Cortona Drive, Suite 102, Santa Barbara, California 93117, USA
    Broida Hall, University of California)

  • Jason H. Steffen

    (Fermilab Center for Particle Astrophysics, MS 127, PO Box 500, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA)

  • Gur Windmiller

    (San Diego State University, 5500 Campanile Drive, San Diego, California 92182, USA)

  • David G. Koch

    (NASA Ames Research Center)

  • William J. Borucki

    (NASA Ames Research Center)

Abstract

Two double-sun exoplanets have been discovered by the Kepler spacecraft, establishing a new class of ‘circumbinary’ exoplanets and suggesting that at least several million such systems exist in our Galaxy.

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  • William F. Welsh & Jerome A. Orosz & Joshua A. Carter & Daniel C. Fabrycky & Eric B. Ford & Jack J. Lissauer & Andrej Prša & Samuel N. Quinn & Darin Ragozzine & Donald R. Short & Guillermo Torres & Jo, 2012. "Transiting circumbinary planets Kepler-34 b and Kepler-35 b," Nature, Nature, vol. 481(7382), pages 475-479, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:481:y:2012:i:7382:d:10.1038_nature10768
    DOI: 10.1038/nature10768
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