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The Mysterious Inspiral of WASP-12 b: Why Obliquity Tides Cannot Drive Orbital Decay

  • Authors: Caleb Lammers, Yubo Su, Joshua N. Winn

Caleb Lammers et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1009 .

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 3.

RV constraints on companions of WASP-12 b. The color conveys the fraction of injected signals that were recovered with ΔBIC  >  25. The green contour traces the 95% recovery fraction limit. Companions with a2  ≈  0.06 au must have ﹩{M}_{2}\sin {i}_{2}\,\lesssim \,46\,{M}_{\oplus }﹩ (i.e., K  ≲  14 m s−1). Separately, any companions with ﹩{M}_{2}\sin {i}_{2}\,\gtrsim \,13\,{M}_{{\rm{J}}}﹩ must be located beyond 10 au.

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