P4_1 Somewhere over the rainbows!

Authors

  • William Sainty University of Leicester
  • Holly Graham University of Leicester
  • Sam Kneeshaw University of Leicester
  • Simon Howard-Clark University of Leicester

Abstract

In this paper, we have discussed what a rainbow produced by dispersion through water droplets looks like from the surface of a planet orbiting a binary star system. The physics of rainbows was examined and a radius of curvature was found to be 42o. How rainbows would appear in a real circumbinary star system, Kepler-34, was studied and we found that two rainbows, 12o apart and 84o across, would be visible on the planet’s surface.

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Published

27-10-2017

How to Cite

Sainty, W., Graham, H., Kneeshaw, S., & Howard-Clark, S. (2017). P4_1 Somewhere over the rainbows!. Physics Special Topics, 16(1). Retrieved from https://journals.le.ac.uk/index.php/pst/article/view/2407

Issue

Vol. 16 No. 1 (2017): Physics Special Topics

Section

Articles