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Context. Several circumbinary planets have been detected by the Kepler mission. Recent work has emphasized the difficulty of forming these planets at their observed locations due to perturbations by the binary. It has been suggested that these planets formed further out in their discs in more quiescent environments and migrated in to locations where they are observed.
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