A gas giant circumbinary planet transiting the f star primary of the eclipsing binary star KIC 4862625 and the independent discovery and characterization of the two transiting planets in the kepler-47 system

We report the discovery of a transiting, gas giant circumbinary planet orbiting the eclipsing binary KIC 4862625 and describe our independent discovery of the two transiting planets orbiting Kepler-47. We describe a simple and semi-automated procedure for identifying individual transits in light curves and present our follow-up measurements of the two circumbinary systems. For the KIC 4862625 system, the 0.52 ± 0.018 R_Jupiter radius planet revolves every ∼138 days and occults the 1.47 ± 0.08 M _⊙, 1.7 ± 0.06 R_⊙ F8 IV primary star producing aperiodic transits of variable durations commensurate with the configuration of the eclipsing binary star. Our best-fit model indicates the orbit has a semi-major axis of 0.64 AU and is slightly eccentric, e = 0.1. For the Kepler-47 system, we confirm the results of Orosz et al. Modulations in the radial velocity of KIC 4862625A are measured both spectroscopically and photometrically, i.e., via Doppler boosting, and produce similar results.