The Apparently Decaying Orbit of WASP-12b

We present new transit and occultation times for the hot Jupiter WASP-12b. The data are compatible with a constant period derivative: P = -29 ± 3msyr ⁻¹ and P/P = 3.2 Myr. However, it is difficult to tell whether we have observed orbital decay or a portion of a 14-year apsidal precession cycle. If i...

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Main Authors: Patra, Kishore C., Winn, Joshua N., Holman, Matthew J., Yu, Liang, Deming, Drake, Dai, Fei
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Published: IOP Publishing 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/112274
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1667-5427
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8958-0683