The Fate of Exoplanets and the Red Giant Rapid Rotator Connection
The Fate of Exoplanets and the Red Giant Rapid Rotator Connection
We have computed the fate of exoplanet companions around main sequence stars to explore the frequency of planet ingestion by their host stars during the red giant branch evolution. Using published properties of exoplanetary systems combined with stellar evolution models and Zahn's theory of tidal friction, we modeled the tidal …