Tidal Dissipation in WASP-12

Tidal Dissipation in WASP-12

WASP-12 is a hot Jupiter system with an orbital period of P = 1.1 days, making it one of the shortest-period giant planets known. Recent transit timing observations by Maciejewski et al. and Patra et al. found a decreasing period with = 3.2 Myr. This has been interpreted as evidence of either orbita...

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Main Authors: Sung, Men (Author), Arras, Phil (Author), Essick, Reed Clasey (Contributor), Weinberg, Nevin N. (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics (Contributor), LIGO (Observatory : Massachusetts Institute of Technology) (Contributor), MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research (Contributor)
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Language:English
Published: American Astronomical Society, 2018-04-26T17:22:47Z.
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