A candidate giant planet companion to the massive, young white dwarf GALEX J071816.4+373139 informs the occurrence of giant planets orbiting B stars

Sihao Cheng, Kevin C. Schlaufman, Ilaria Caiazzo

It has been suggested that giant planet occurrence peaks for stars with $M_{\ast }\approx 3M_{\odot }$ at a value a factor of 4 higher than observed for solar-mass stars. This popu…