Fig. 1

Perpendicular displacement of a moon as seen from the star for two scenarios. The thin and highly oscillating curve corresponds to the orbit of a satellite in a Europa-wide orbit (in units of Rp) about a Jupiter-sized planet at 1 AU from a Sun-like star. The satellite’s orbit about the Jovian planet is inclined by i = 45°. The thicker gray line shows the Miranda-wide orbit of a satellite orbiting a Neptune-mass object at ≈ 0.16 AU from a 0.4 M⊙ star, i.e. in the center of the IHZ. Here, the moon orbits in the same plane as the planet orbits the low-mass host star, i.e. i = 0°. Time spent in eclipse is emphasized with a thick, black line. Both orbits are normalized to the circumstellar orbital phase ϕ∗p.
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