Orbital disruption of circumbinary exoplanets (IMAGE)

University of California - Berkeley

Orbital disruption of circumbinary exoplanets

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A step-by-step explanation for why planets that orbit a double star eventually enter an unstable orbit and disappear from the system.

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Mohammad Farhat/UC Berkeley

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