WASP-12b as a prolate, inflated and disrupting planet from tidal dissipation

Nature

Volumn 463, Issue 7284, 2010, Pages 1054-1056

  Li, Shu Lin ^a,c   Miller, N ^b   Lin, Douglas N C ^a,b   Fortney, Jonathan J ^b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH; ECCENTRICITY; EXTRATERRESTRIAL MATTER; JUPITER; MARS; NEW RECORD; PERTURBATION; PLANETARY SURFACE; TIDAL CURRENT; WASP-12B;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ENERGY RESOURCE; FORCE; GAS; GRAVITY; ORBIT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIUS; SURFACE PROPERTY; WASP 12B;

EID: 77649174050     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature08715     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Mayor, M. & Queloz, D. A. Jupiter-mass companion to a solar-type star. Astrophys. J. 378, 355-359 (1995).
2. Hebb, L. et al. WASP-12 b: the hottest transiting extra solar-planet yet discovered. Astrophys. J. 693, 1920-1928 (2009).
3. Bodenheimer, P., Laughlin, G. & Lin, D. N. C. On the radii of extrasolar giant planets. Astrophys. J. 592, 555-563 (2003).
4. Fortney, J. J., Marley, M. S. & Barnes, J. W. Planetary radii across five orders of magnitude in mass and stellar insolation: application to transits. Astrophys. J. 659, 1661-1672 (2007).
5. Bodenheimer, P., Lin, D. N. C. & Mardling, R. A. On the tidal inflation of short-period extrasolar planets. Astrophys. J. 548, 466-472 (2001).
6. Guillot, T., Burrow, A., Hubbard, W. B., Lunine, J. I. & Saumon, D. Giant planets at small orbital distances. Astrophys. J. 459, L35-L38 (1996).
7. Dobbs-Dixon, I. & Lin, D. N. C. Atmospheric dynamics of short-period extrasolar gas giant planets. I. Dependence of nightside temperature on opacity. Astrophys. J. 673, 513-525 (2008).
8. Garcia Munoz, A. Physical and chemical aeronomy of HD 209458b. Planet. Space Sci. 55, 1426-1455 (2007).
9. Hubbard, W. B., Hattori, M. F., Burrows, A., Hubeny, I. & Sudarksy, D. Effects of mass loss for highly-irradiated giant planets. Icarus 187, 358-364 (2007).
10. Dobbs-Dixon, I., Lin, D. N. C. & Mardling, R. A. Spin-orbit evolution of short-period planets. Astrophys. J. 610, 464-476 (2004).
11. Goldreich, P. & Soter, S. Q in the Solar System. Icarus 5, 375-389 (1966).
12. Ogilvie, G. I. & Lin, D. N. C. Tidal dissipation in rotating giant planets. Astrophys. J. 610, 477-509 (2004).
13. Ogilvie, G. I. & Lin, D. N. C. Tidal dissipation in rotating solar-type stars. Astrophys. J. 661, 1180-1191 (2007).
14. Yoder, C. F. & Peale, S. J. The tide of Io. Icarus 47, 1-35 (1981).
15. Knutson, H. et al. A map of the day-night contrast of the extrasolar planet HD 189733b. Nature 447, 183-186 (2007).
16. Lin, D. N. C. & Papaloizou, J. C. B. in Protostars and Planets III (eds Black, D. & Mathews, M.) 749-835 (University of Arizona Press, 1993).
17. Adams, F. C., Shu, F. H. & Lada, C. J. The disks of T Tauri stars with flat infrared spectra. Astrophys. J. 326, 865-883 (1988).
18. Hartmann, L., Calvet, N., Gullbring, E. & D'Alessio, P. Accretion and the evolution of T Tauri disks. Astrophys. J. 495, 385-400 (1998).
19. Najita, J., Carr, J. S., Glassgold, A. E., Shu, F. H. & Tokunaga, A. T. Kinematic diagnostics of disks around young stars: CO overtone emission from WL 16 and 1548C27. Astrophys. J. 462, 919-936 (1996).
20. Vauclair, S. Metallic fingers and metallicity excess in exoplanets' host stars: the accretion hypothesis revisited. Astrophys. J. 605, 874-879 (2004).
21. Sasselov, D. D. The new transiting planet OGLE-TR-56b: orbit and atmosphere. Astrophys. J. 596, 1327-1331 (2003).
22. Hellier, C. et al. An orbital period of 0.94 days for the hot-Jupiter planet WASP-18b. Nature 460, 1098-1100 (2009).
23. Meibom, S., Mathieu, R. D. & Stassun, K. G. An observational study of tidal synchronization in solar-type binary stars in the open clusters M35 and M34. Astrophys. J. 653, 621-635 (2006).
24. Peale, S., Cassen, P. & Reynolds, R. T. Melting Io by tidal dissipation. Science 203, 892-894 (1979).
25. Lin, D. N. C. & Papaloizou, J. On the structure of circumbinary accretion disks and the tidal evolution of commensurable satellites. Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 188, 191-201 (1979).
26. Tanaka, H., Takeuchi, T. & Ward, W. R. Three-dimensional interaction between a planet and an isothermal gaseous disk. I. Corotation and Lindblad torques and planet migration. Astrophys. J. 565, 1257-1274 (2002).