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A Disintegrating Rocky Planet with Prominent Comet-like Tails around a Bright Star

  • Authors: Marc Hon, Saul Rappaport, Avi Shporer, Andrew Vanderburg, Karen A. Collins, Cristilyn N. Watkins, Richard P. Schwarz, Khalid Barkaoui, Samuel W. Yee, Joshua N. Winn, Alex S. Polanski, Emily A. Gilbert, David R. Ciardi, Jeroen Audenaert, William Fong, Jack Haviland, Katharine Hesse, Daniel Muthukrishna, Glen Petitpas, Ellie Hadjiyska Schmelzer, Norio Narita, Akihiko Fukui, Sara Seager, George R. Ricker

Marc Hon et al 2025 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 984 .

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 1.

TESS light curve of BD+05 4868 A. (a) Normalized and detrended light curves from Sectors 55 and 82. (b) Phase-folded light curve, repeated for two periods. The light curve is folded at a period of 1.271869 days (∼30.5 hr) and binned over 6 minute intervals (red), showing the average transit profile across 29 transits. (c) Close-up of the transit in the phase-folded light curve.

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