Circumstellar Habitable Zones of Binary Star Systems in the Solar Neighborhood
Siegfried Eggl,
Elke Pilat-Lohinger,
Barbara Funk
et al.
Abstract:Binary and multiple systems constitute more than half of the total stellar population in the Solar neighborhood (Kiseleva-Eggleton & Eggleton 2001). Their frequent occurrence as well as the fact that more than 70 (Schneider et al. 2011) planets have already been discovered in such configurations -most noteably the telluric companion of α Cen B (Dumusque et al. 2012) -make them interesting targets in the search for habitable worlds. Recent studies (Eggl et al. 2012b;Forgan 2012) have shown, that despite the var… Show more
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