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Spin-Orbit Misalignments of Three Jovian Planets via Doppler Tomography

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics 2017-09-20 v1

Abstract

We present measurements of the spin-orbit misalignments of the hot Jupiters HAT-P-41 b and WASP-79 b, and the aligned warm Jupiter Kepler-448 b. We obtained these measurements with Doppler tomography, where we spectroscopically resolve the line profile perturbation during the transit due to the Rossiter-McLaughlin effect. We analyze time series spectra obtained during portions of five transits of HAT-P-41 b, and find a value of the spin-orbit misalignment of λ=22.16.0+0.8\lambda = -22.1_{-6.0}^{+0.8 \circ}. We reanalyze the radial velocity Rossiter-McLaughlin data on WASP-79 b obtained by Addison et al. (2013) using Doppler tomographic methodology. We measure λ=99.13.9+4.1\lambda=-99.1_{-3.9}^{+4.1\circ}, consistent with but more precise than the value found by Addison et al. (2013). For Kepler-448 b we perform a joint fit to the Kepler light curve, Doppler tomographic data, and a radial velocity dataset from Lillo-Box et al. (2015). We find an approximately aligned orbit (λ=7.12.8+4.2\lambda=-7.1^{+4.2 \circ}_{-2.8}), in modest disagreement with the value found by Bourrier et al. (2015). Through analysis of the Kepler light curve we measure a stellar rotation period of Prot=1.27±0.11P_{\mathrm{rot}}=1.27 \pm 0.11 days, and use this to argue that the full three-dimensional spin-orbit misalignment is small, ψ0\psi\sim0^{\circ}.

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@article{arxiv.1708.01291,
  title  = {Spin-Orbit Misalignments of Three Jovian Planets via Doppler Tomography},
  author = {Marshall C. Johnson and William D. Cochran and Brett C. Addison and Chris G. Tinney and Duncan J. Wright},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.01291},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

Accepted for publication in AJ. 16 pages, 8 figures