Paper on tidal star-planet interactions
My PhD student Nikoleta Ilic has published a project we have been working on for the past two years: the identification of tidal star-planet interaction in a sample of planet-hosting stars. The tidal interaction leads to a spin-up of the host stars, which we identified through comparisons with co-eval companion stars in wide orbits around the star-planet systems. The paper was also featured in a joint press release of the AIP and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics: https://chandra.harvard.edu/press/22_releases/press_110222.html Ilic, N….