No circumbinary planets transiting the tightest Kepler binaries – a possible fingerprint of a third star

• Published in: Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Vol. 453; no. 4; pp. 3554 - 3567
• Main Authors: Martin, David V., Mazeh, Tsevi, Fabrycky, Daniel C.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Oxford University Press 11.11.2015
• Subjects: Binary stars; Double stars; Dynamical systems; Dynamics; Eclipsing binary stars; Extrasolar planets; Geometry; Kepler mission (NASA); Observatories; Orbits; Planets; Spacecraft; Stars; binaries: close; binaries: eclipsing; celestial mechanics; methods: numerical; planets and satellites: detection; planets and satellites: dynamical evolution and stability

The Kepler mission has yielded the discovery of eight circumbinary systems, all found around eclipsing binaries with periods greater than 7 d. This is longer than the typical eclipsing binary period found by Kepler, and hence there is a dearth of planets around the closest binaries. In this paper, w...