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For blackbody stars of radii $R_A,R_B$ and temperatures $T_A,T_B$, a distant circumbinary planet with Bond albedo $A_B$ and uniform global reradiation has planetary equilibrium temperatureThis neglects internal cooling, eccentricity, and corrections from finite binary separation. The stars heat the planet through the sum of their absorbed bolometric fluxes, not an average of their temperatures.

For $a\gg a_{AB}$, both stars illuminate the circumbinary planet at approximately distance $a$. Treat them as blackbodies, neglect internal heating, and assume Bond albedo $A_B$ and uniform global reradiation. The absorbed and emitted powers areThus the equilibrium temperature of a circumbinary planet isFor an example, take $R_A=R_{\odot }$, $R_B=0.3R_{\odot }$, $T_A=6000\mathrm{K}$, $T_B=3000\mathrm{K}$, $a=1\mathrm{au}$, $a_{AB}=0.05\mathrm{au}$, circular coplanar orbits, and $A_B=0$. ThenThe cooler star contributes only $0.3^2(3000/6000{)}^4\simeq 0.0056$ of the hotter star's luminosity in this example.

An opaque isothermal atmosphere emits $F_{\lambda }=\pi B_{\lambda }(T_p)$, with no absorption or emission bands. The Wien displacement law puts the maximum of this wavelength spectrum near ${\lambda }_{\max }\simeq 10\mu \mathrm{m}$. At observer distance $d$, the planetary spectral flux is $\pi B_{\lambda }(T_p)(R_p/d{)}^2$.