• DOI:10.1029/2019JE006222
Corpus ID: 207930082

Constraining the magnitude of climate extremes from time-varying instellation on a circumbinary terrestrial planet

@article{HaqqMisra2019ConstrainingTM,
  title={Constraining the magnitude of climate extremes from time-varying instellation on a circumbinary terrestrial planet},
  author={J. Haqq-Misra and E. Wolf and W. Welsh and R. Kopparapu and V. Kostov and S. Kane},
  journal={arXiv: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics},
  year={2019}
}

J. Haqq-Misra, E. Wolf, +3 authors S. Kane

Published 2019

Geology, Physics, Environmental Science

arXiv: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics

Planets that revolve around a binary pair of stars are known as circumbinary planets. The orbital motion of the stars around their center of mass causes a periodic variation in the total instellation incident upon a circumbinary planet. This study uses both an analytic and numerical energy balance model to calculate the extent to which this effect can drive changes in surface temperature on circumbinary terrestrial planets. We show that the amplitude of the temperature variation is largely… CONTINUE READING

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