Tidal dissipation within hot Jupiters: a new appraisal

2006/11/29 by B. Levrard, Benjamin Levrard, Alexandre Morgado Correia +8
Physics and Astronomy · #Astro and Planetary Science #Astronomy #Astrophysics #Computer science #Context (archaeology) #Dissipation #Eccentricity (behavior) #Exoplanet #Geology #Hot Jupiter #Paleontology #Physics #Planet #RADIUS #Resonance (particle physics) #Scientific Research and Discoveries #Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies #Tidal heating #astro-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20066487

published as Astronomy and Astrophysics (01/01/2007) 1-4 · 4 pages & 2 Figures

openalex publication_date 2006/11/29 · arxiv created 2006/12/01 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

Context.Eccentricity or obliquity tides have been proposed as the missing energy source that may explain the anomalously large radius of some transiting “hot Jupiters”. To maintain a non-zero and large obliquity, it was argued that the planets can be locked in a Cassini state, i.e. a resonance between spin and orbital precessions.

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