Open AccessKepler survey announces two planets in a binary star system
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
astronomy & geophysics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.168
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1468-4004
pISSN - 1366-8781
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-4004.2012.53504_14.x
Subject(s) - planet , kepler , star (game theory) , astrobiology , astronomy , physics , binary number , astrophysics , mathematics , arithmetic
A team of observers using data from NASA's Kepler space observatory announced at the IAU General Assembly that they had discovered two planets orbiting a pair of binary stars, and that such planets could exist in the habitable zone of their system.