Analysis of a Planet in a Mira Wind

Volume 30 number 2 (2002)

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Babak Cohanim
Iowa

Abstract

The possibility of planets orbiting variable stars poses the question of how the planets might interact with the variable star's outward-flowing wind and if these interactions might be observable. Computational modeling of planetary objects orbiting these stars is being used to help determine hydrodynamic characteristics of the winds.