THERMAL PHASE VARIATIONS OF WASP-12b: DEFYING PREDICTIONS

We report Warm Spitzer full-orbit phase observations of WASP-12b at 3.6 and 4.5 μm. This extremely inflated hot Jupiter is thought to be overflowing its Roche lobe, undergoing mass loss and accretion onto its host star, and has been claimed to have a C/O ratio in excess of unity. We are able to meas...

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Những tác giả chính: Cowan, Nicolas B., Machalek, Pavel, Shekhtman, Louis M., Burrows, Adam, Deming, Drake, Greene, Tom, Hora, Joseph L., Croll, Bryce J.
Tác giả khác: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Định dạng: Bài viết
Ngôn ngữ:en_US
Được phát hành: IOP Publishing 2015
Truy cập trực tuyến:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/95620

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