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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 17.

Upper panel: MEGNO map of KIC 4862625b. The masses of primary and secondary component were set to 1.47  M and 0.37  M , respectively. The binary semi-major axis and eccentricity were set to 0.177 AU and 0.2. The planet was treated as a test particle. The cross-hair marks the best-fit osculating elements ( a, e) = (0.64 AU, 0.1) of the planet. Arrows indicate the location of mean-motion resonances. Yellow (or light) color denotes chaotic (possibly unstable) orbits and blue (dark) color denotes quasi-periodic orbits with | lang Y rang − 2.0| sime 0.001. Lower panel: same as the upper panel but now zooming into a narrower region of ( a, e)-space of the planet.

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