Stable Climates for Temperate Rocky Circumbinary Planets

Abstract

Stories of life on planets with multiple host stars have made for compelling science fiction, from Tatooine to Trisolaris. However, searching for Earth-sized planets orbiting multiple host stars is also compelling from a practical perspective, as about half of stars surveyed are part of multiple star systems (Raghavan et al., 2010). In recent years, the Kepler and Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) missions have found a range of circumbinary planets that orbit exterior to binary star systems (e.g.,