Doomed Worlds I: No new evidence for orbital decay in a long-term survey
of 43 ultra-hot Jupiters
Doomed Worlds I: No new evidence for orbital decay in a long-term survey
of 43 ultra-hot Jupiters
Ultra-hot Jupiters are likely doomed by tidal forces to undergo orbital decay and eventual disruption by their stars, but the timescale over which this process unfolds is unknown. We present results from a long-term project to monitor ultra-hot Jupiters transits. We recovered WASP-12 b's orbital decay rate of dP/dt = …