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The Orbit of WASP-12b Is Decaying

  • Authors: Samuel W. Yee, Joshua N. Winn, Heather A. Knutson, Kishore C. Patra, Shreyas Vissapragada, Michael M. Zhang, Matthew J. Holman, Avi Shporer, and Jason T. Wright

2020 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 888 L5.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 5.

Radial velocity residuals after subtracting the best-fitting sinusoidal model. No significant trends are seen in the residuals. The blue line has the slope that would have been observed, if the Rømer effect were solely responsible for the observed period derivative.

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