A Disintegrating Rocky Planet with Prominent Comet-like Tails Around a Bright Star

Marc Hon, Saul Rappaport, Avi Shporer +21

We report the discovery of BD+054868Ab, a transiting exoplanet orbiting a bright ($V=10.16$) K-dwarf (TIC 466376085) with a period of 1.27 days. Observations from NASA's Tr…