Circumbinary planets -- the next steps

2020/02/24 by D. Martin, David V. Martin
Physics and Astronomy · Social Sciences · #Astronomy and Astrophysical Research #Binary number #Circumbinary planet #Educational Leadership and Practices #Kepler #Kepler-47 #Orbit (dynamics) #Planet #Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies #Transit (satellite) #astro-ph.EP #astro-ph.SR

paper · pdf · doi:10.31577/caosp.2020.50.2.463

Invited conference proceedings for Universe of Binaries, Binaries in the Universe in Telc, Czech Republic, September 2019

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Abstract

The Kepler mission opened the door to a small but bonafide sample of circumbinary planets. Some initial trends have been identified and used to challenge our theories of planet and binary formation. However, the Kepler sample is not only small but contains biases. I will present a circumbinary plan for the future. Specifically, I will cover the BEBOP radial velocity survey, the latest TESS transit mission and a new technique for digging out small circumbinary planets in archival Kepler photometry.

Citations

• A triple origin for the lack of tight coplanar circumbinary planets around short-period binaries
• Kepler-16: A Transiting Circumbinary Planet
• THE RADIAL VELOCITY TATOOINE SEARCH FOR CIRCUMBINARY PLANETS: PLANET DETECTION LIMITS FOR A SAMPLE OF DOUBLE-LINED BINARY STARS—INITIAL RESULTS FROM KECK I/HIRES, SHANE/CAT/HAMSPEC, AND TNG/SARG OBSERVATIONS