Transiting circumbinary planets Kepler-34 b and Kepler-35 b

William F. Welsh (), Jerome A. Orosz, Joshua A. Carter (), Daniel C. Fabrycky, Eric B. Ford, Jack J. Lissauer, Andrej Prša, Samuel N. Quinn, Darin Ragozzine, Donald R. Short, Guillermo Torres, Joshua N. Winn, Laurance R. Doyle, Thomas Barclay, Natalie Batalha, Steven Bloemen, Erik Brugamyer, Lars A. Buchhave, Caroline Caldwell, Douglas A. Caldwell, Jessie L. Christiansen, David R. Ciardi, William D. Cochran, Michael Endl, Jonathan J. Fortney, Thomas N. Gautier, Ronald L. Gilliland, Michael R. Haas, Jennifer R. Hall, Matthew J. Holman, Andrew W. Howard, Steve B. Howell, Howard Isaacson, Jon M. Jenkins, Todd C. Klaus, David W. Latham, Jie Li, Geoffrey W. Marcy, Tsevi Mazeh, Elisa V. Quintana, Paul Robertson, Avi Shporer, Jason H. Steffen, Gur Windmiller, David G. Koch and William J. Borucki
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William F. Welsh: San Diego State University, 5500 Campanile Drive, San Diego, California 92182, USA
Jerome A. Orosz: San Diego State University, 5500 Campanile Drive, San Diego, California 92182, USA
Joshua A. Carter: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street
Daniel C. Fabrycky: UCO/Lick Observatory, University of California
Eric B. Ford: University of Florida, 211 Bryant Space Science Center
Jack J. Lissauer: NASA Ames Research Center
Andrej Prša: Villanova University, 800 E. Lancaster Avenue, Villanova, Pennsylvania 19085, USA
Samuel N. Quinn: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street
Darin Ragozzine: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street
Donald R. Short: San Diego State University, 5500 Campanile Drive, San Diego, California 92182, USA
Guillermo Torres: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street
Joshua N. Winn: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
Laurance R. Doyle: Carl Sagan Center for the Study of Life in the Universe, SETI Institute, 189 Bernardo Avenue, Mountain View, California 94043, USA
Thomas Barclay: NASA Ames Research Center
Natalie Batalha: NASA Ames Research Center
Steven Bloemen: Instituut voor Sterrenkunde, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200D, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium
Erik Brugamyer: McDonald Observatory, The University of Texas at Austin
Lars A. Buchhave: Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen University, Juliane Maries Vej 30, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
Caroline Caldwell: McDonald Observatory, The University of Texas at Austin
Douglas A. Caldwell: Carl Sagan Center for the Study of Life in the Universe, SETI Institute, 189 Bernardo Avenue, Mountain View, California 94043, USA
Jessie L. Christiansen: NASA Ames Research Center
David R. Ciardi: NASA Exoplanet Science Institute/Caltech, 770 South Wilson Avenue
William D. Cochran: McDonald Observatory, The University of Texas at Austin
Michael Endl: McDonald Observatory, The University of Texas at Austin
Jonathan J. Fortney: University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California 95064, USA
Thomas N. Gautier: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 4800 Oak Grove Drive
Ronald L. Gilliland: Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive
Michael R. Haas: NASA Ames Research Center
Jennifer R. Hall: Orbital Sciences Corporation/NASA Ames Research Center
Matthew J. Holman: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street
Andrew W. Howard: University of California
Steve B. Howell: NASA Ames Research Center
Howard Isaacson: University of California
Jon M. Jenkins: NASA Ames Research Center
Todd C. Klaus: Orbital Sciences Corporation/NASA Ames Research Center
David W. Latham: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street
Jie Li: NASA Ames Research Center
Geoffrey W. Marcy: University of California
Tsevi Mazeh: School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University
Elisa V. Quintana: NASA Ames Research Center
Paul Robertson: McDonald Observatory, The University of Texas at Austin
Avi Shporer: Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network, 6740 Cortona Drive, Suite 102, Santa Barbara, California 93117, USA
Jason H. Steffen: Fermilab Center for Particle Astrophysics, MS 127, PO Box 500, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
Gur Windmiller: San Diego State University, 5500 Campanile Drive, San Diego, California 92182, USA
David G. Koch: NASA Ames Research Center
William J. Borucki: NASA Ames Research Center

Nature, 2012, vol. 481, issue 7382, 475-479

Abstract: Two double-sun exoplanets have been discovered by the Kepler spacecraft, establishing a new class of ‘circumbinary’ exoplanets and suggesting that at least several million such systems exist in our Galaxy.

Date: 2012
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