What question did this study set out to answer?

To examine the host stars of exoplanets in binary systems and investigate the presence of the radius gap.

Determining the Host Stars of Planets in Binary Star Systems with Asterodensity Profiling: Investigating the Canonical Radius Gap

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Randomized trial investigates the host stars of planets in binary systems, suggesting a modified view of the radius gap.

To examine the host stars of exoplanets in binary systems and investigate the presence of the radius gap.
Applied asterodensity profiling to estimate host stars of 15 transiting exoplanets across 10 binary star systems.
Classified planets based on their likelihood of being circumprimary or circumsecondary.
Analyzed planet radius distributions in relation to their host stars.
Five planets were highly likely to be hosted by the primary star.
Observed biases indicated a lack of unambiguous circumsecondary planets.
The canonical radius gap appears less vacant for planets in binary systems.

Burns-Watson et al. (2026) studied this question.

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