Orbital Circularization of Hot and Cool Kepler Eclipsing Binaries

The rate of tidal circularization is predicted to be faster for relatively cool stars with convective outer layers, compared to hotter stars with radiative outer layers. Observing this effect is challenging because it requires large and well-characterized samples that include both hot and cool stars...

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Main Authors: Albrecht, Simon H. (Contributor), Van Eylen, Vincent (Contributor), Winn, Joshua Nathan (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics (Contributor), MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research (Contributor), Winn, Joshua N. (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing, 2016-10-21T22:14:22Z.
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