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A Gas Giant Circumbinary Planet Transiting the F Star Primary of the Eclipsing Binary Star KIC 4862625 and the Independent Discovery and Characterization of the Two Transiting Planets in the Kepler-47 System

  • Authors: V. B. Kostov, P. R. McCullough, T. C. Hinse, Z. I. Tsvetanov, G. Hébrard, R. F. Díaz, M. Deleuil, and J. A. Valenti

Kostov et al. 2013 The Astrophysical Journal 770 52.

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Caption: Figure 14.

Best-fit dynamical models of KIC 4862625 predicting the midpoint times of transits 2 through 9 within an rms of ~7 hr. Models with different parameters produce similar solutions, all predicting planetary transits that deviate by only a few data points from the observed values, a small error margin on the orbital scale of the planet. The decrease in the number of "hits" as the mass of the primary increases from 1.1 to 1.6  M is not a systematic effect but is in fact real—there are many more good "hits" for smaller M prim.

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