Orbital Decay of Hot Jupiters due to Weakly Nonlinear Tidal Dissipation
Orbital Decay of Hot Jupiters due to Weakly Nonlinear Tidal Dissipation
Abstract We study tidal dissipation in hot Jupiter host stars due to the nonlinear damping of tidally driven g -modes, extending the calculations of Essick & Weinberg to a wide variety of stellar host types. This process causes the planet’s orbit to decay and has potentially important consequences for the …