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A giant planet undergoing extreme-ultraviolet irradiation by its hot massive-star host

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  • B. Scott Gaudi

    (The Ohio State University)

  • Keivan G. Stassun

    (Vanderbilt University
    Fisk University)

  • Karen A. Collins

    (Vanderbilt University)

  • Thomas G. Beatty

    (Center for Exoplanets and Habitable Worlds, The Pennsylvania State University
    The Pennsylvania State University)

  • George Zhou

    (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

  • David W. Latham

    (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

  • Allyson Bieryla

    (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

  • Jason D. Eastman

    (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

  • Robert J. Siverd

    (Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network)

  • Justin R. Crepp

    (University of Notre Dame)

  • Erica J. Gonzales

    (University of Notre Dame)

  • Daniel J. Stevens

    (The Ohio State University)

  • Lars A. Buchhave

    (Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen
    Centre for Star and Planet Formation, Geological Museum)

  • Joshua Pepper

    (Lehigh University)

  • Marshall C. Johnson

    (The Ohio State University)

  • Knicole D. Colon

    (NASA Ames Research Center
    Bay Area Environmental Research Institute)

  • Eric L. N. Jensen

    (Swarthmore College)

  • Joseph E. Rodriguez

    (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

  • Valerio Bozza

    (Università di Salerno
    Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Napoli)

  • Sebastiano Calchi Novati

    (Università di Salerno
    IPAC)

  • Giuseppe D’Ago

    (Istituto Internazionale per gli Alti Studi Scientifici (IIASS)
    INAF-Observatory of Capodimonte)

  • Mary T. Dumont

    (Brigham Young University
    University of California Santa Cruz)

  • Tyler Ellis

    (University of Wyoming
    Louisiana State University)

  • Clement Gaillard

    (Brigham Young University)

  • Hannah Jang-Condell

    (University of Wyoming)

  • David H. Kasper

    (University of Wyoming)

  • Akihiko Fukui

    (Okayama Astrophysical Observatory, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, NINS)

  • Joao Gregorio

    (Atalaia Group and Crow Observatory)

  • Ayaka Ito

    (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, NINS
    Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Hosei University)

  • John F. Kielkopf

    (University of Louisville)

  • Mark Manner

    (Spot Observatory)

  • Kyle Matt

    (Brigham Young University)

  • Norio Narita

    (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, NINS
    The University of Tokyo
    Astrobiology Center, NINS)

  • Thomas E. Oberst

    (Westminster College)

  • Phillip A. Reed

    (Kutztown University)

  • Gaetano Scarpetta

    (Università di Salerno
    IPAC)

  • Denice C. Stephens

    (Brigham Young University)

  • Rex R. Yeigh

    (University of Wyoming)

  • Roberto Zambelli

    (Società Astronomica Lunae)

  • B. J. Fulton

    (Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii)

  • Andrew W. Howard

    (Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii)

  • David J. James

    (University of Washington)

  • Matthew Penny

    (The Ohio State University)

  • Daniel Bayliss

    (Observatoire Astronomique de l’Université de Genève)

  • Ivan A. Curtis

    (ICO)

  • D. L. DePoy

    (George P. and Cynthia Woods Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A & M University)

  • Gilbert A. Esquerdo

    (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

  • Andrew Gould

    (The Ohio State University
    Max Planck Institute for Astronomy)

  • Michael D. Joner

    (Brigham Young University)

  • Rudolf B. Kuhn

    (South African Astronomical Observatory)

  • Jonathan Labadie-Bartz

    (Lehigh University)

  • Michael B. Lund

    (Vanderbilt University)

  • Jennifer L. Marshall

    (George P. and Cynthia Woods Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A & M University)

  • Kim K. McLeod

    (Wellesley College)

  • Richard W. Pogge

    (The Ohio State University)

  • Howard Relles

    (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

  • Christopher Stockdale

    (Hazelwood Observatory)

  • T. G. Tan

    (Perth Exoplanet Survey Telescope)

  • Mark Trueblood

    (Winer Observatory)

  • Patricia Trueblood

    (Winer Observatory)

Abstract

The giant planet KELT-9b has a dayside temperature of about 4,600 K, which is sufficiently high to dissociate molecules and to evaporate its atmosphere, owing to its hot stellar host.

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  • B. Scott Gaudi & Keivan G. Stassun & Karen A. Collins & Thomas G. Beatty & George Zhou & David W. Latham & Allyson Bieryla & Jason D. Eastman & Robert J. Siverd & Justin R. Crepp & Erica J. Gonzales &, 2017. "A giant planet undergoing extreme-ultraviolet irradiation by its hot massive-star host," Nature, Nature, vol. 546(7659), pages 514-518, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:546:y:2017:i:7659:d:10.1038_nature22392
    DOI: 10.1038/nature22392
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