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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 16.

The effect of a non-zero planetary mass on the predicted times of transit of KIC 4862625. Keeping the best-fit parameters of the circumbinary system constant, an increasingly more massive planet introduces significant deviations relative to the best solutions for a massless planet. While it is unlikely that the mass of the planet is larger than a few M J, it adds a significant complication to the best-fit models, again indicating the non-unique nature of the solutions.

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