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Equilibrium temperature of a circumbinary planet (Teq​)

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For blackbody stars of radii RA​,RB​ and temperatures TA​,TB​, a distant circumbinary planet with Bond albedo AB​ and uniform global reradiation has planetary equilibrium temperature
Teq4​=4a21−AB​​(RA2​TA4​+RB2​TB4​).
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This 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.

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