Wouldn’t a binary system limit where planets could form? A planet as far out as Jupiter would be affected by both suns almost equally, so what would happen to all of our gas giants? I would think that only relatively small planets fairly close to each star would survive. Would 1 AU be close enough to be able to ignore the gravity of the other star?
Yeah would think that planets would need to be relatively close to the parent star. The B star is cooler than our sun so you could get a tighter habitable zone despite the wide orbit.