Planetary Assembly in
Binary Systems
A circumbinary planet
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Stefano Meschiari, McDonald Observatory
Meschiari, 2012; 2012b (submitted) DPS Meeting 2012
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Planetary Assembly in
Binary Systems
A circumbinary planet
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Stefano Meschiari, McDonald Observatory
Meschiari, 2012; 2012b (submitted) DPS Meeting 2012
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Observed circumbinary planets
(orbits are normalized to the stability boundary)
Kepler 16-b
Doyle et al. 2011, Welsh et al.
2012, Orosz et al. 2012a, b
Kepler 34-b, 35-b
Kepler 38-b
Kepler 47-b
Kepler 47-c
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Planetesimal “bottleneck” (1-10 km)
High eccentricities, planetesimals of different sizes dephased
by gas disk