The Possible Tidal Demise of Kepler's First Planetary System

Shreyas Vissapragada, Ashley Chontos, Michael Greklek-McKeon +6

We present evidence of tidally-driven inspiral in the Kepler-1658 (KOI-4) system, which consists of a giant planet (1.1$R_{\mathrm{J}}$, 5.9$M_{\mathrm{J}}$) orbiting an evolved host s…