The Apparently Decaying Orbit of WASP-12

Kishore C. Patra, Joshua N. Winn, Matthew J. Holman +3

We present new transit and occultation times for the hot Jupiter WASP-12b. The data are compatible with a constant period derivative: $\dot{P}=-29\pm 3$ ms yr${}^{-1}$ and $P/\dot{P…