Summary
- Ph.D. student Jared Bryan utilizes his knowledge of Earth-based seismology to solve a mystery about how hot Jupiters end up so close to their host stars.
- Bryan’s research project, published in Nature Astronomy, involves seismic activity not on Earth, but on stars.
- Tidal resonance locking is discovered as a key factor in causing changes in orbital distances of hot Jupiters near host stars.
- The implications of this research extend to using tidal resonance locking as an exoplanet detection tool.