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Carter JA, Fabrycky DC, Ragozzine D, et al. KOI-126: a triply eclipsing hierarchical triple with two low-mass stars. Science. 2011;331(6017):562-5doi: 10.1126/science.1201274.
Carter, J. A., Fabrycky, D. C., Ragozzine, D., Holman, M. J., Quinn, S. N., Latham, D. W., Buchhave, L. A., Van Cleve, J., Cochran, W. D., Cote, M. T., Endl, M., Ford, E. B., Haas, M. R., Jenkins, J. M., Koch, D. G., Li, J., Lissauer, J. J., MacQueen, P. J., Middour, C. K., Orosz, J. A., Rowe, J. F., Steffen, J. H., & Welsh, W. F. (2011). KOI-126: a triply eclipsing hierarchical triple with two low-mass stars. Science (New York, N.Y.), 331(6017), 562-5. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1201274
Carter, Joshua A, et al. "KOI-126: a triply eclipsing hierarchical triple with two low-mass stars." Science (New York, N.Y.) vol. 331,6017 (2011): 562-5. doi: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1201274
Carter JA, Fabrycky DC, Ragozzine D, Holman MJ, Quinn SN, Latham DW, Buchhave LA, Van Cleve J, Cochran WD, Cote MT, Endl M, Ford EB, Haas MR, Jenkins JM, Koch DG, Li J, Lissauer JJ, MacQueen PJ, Middour CK, Orosz JA, Rowe JF, Steffen JH, Welsh WF. KOI-126: a triply eclipsing hierarchical triple with two low-mass stars. Science. 2011 Feb 04;331(6017):562-5. doi: 10.1126/science.1201274. Epub 2011 Jan 11. PMID: 21224439.
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Science. 2011 Feb 04;331(6017):562-5. doi: 10.1126/science.1201274. Epub 2011 Jan 11.

KOI-126: a triply eclipsing hierarchical triple with two low-mass stars.

Science (New York, N.Y.)

Joshua A Carter, Daniel C Fabrycky, Darin Ragozzine, Matthew J Holman, Samuel N Quinn, David W Latham, Lars A Buchhave, Jeffrey Van Cleve, William D Cochran, Miles T Cote, Michael Endl, Eric B Ford, Michael R Haas, Jon M Jenkins, David G Koch, Jie Li, Jack J Lissauer, Phillip J MacQueen, Christopher K Middour, Jerome A Orosz, Jason F Rowe, Jason H Steffen, William F Welsh

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  1. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. [email protected]

PMID: 21224439 DOI: 10.1126/science.1201274

Abstract

The Kepler spacecraft has been monitoring the light from 150,000 stars in its primary quest to detect transiting exoplanets. Here, we report on the detection of an eclipsing stellar hierarchical triple, identified in the Kepler photometry. KOI-126 [A, (B, C)], is composed of a low-mass binary [masses M(B) = 0.2413 ± 0.0030 solar mass (M(⊙)), M(C) = 0.2127 ± 0.0026 M(⊙); radii R(B) = 0.2543 ± 0.0014 solar radius (R(⊙)), R(C) = 0.2318 ± 0.0013 R(⊙); orbital period P(1) = 1.76713 ± 0.00019 days] on an eccentric orbit about a third star (mass M(A) = 1.347 ± 0.032 M(⊙); radius R(A) = 2.0254 ± 0.0098 R(⊙); period of orbit around the low-mass binary P(2) = 33.9214 ± 0.0013 days; eccentricity of that orbit e(2) = 0.3043 ± 0.0024). The low-mass pair probe the poorly sampled fully convective stellar domain offering a crucial benchmark for theoretical stellar models.

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