The Rossiter-McLaughlin effect in Exoplanet Research
Abstract
The Rossiter-McLaughlin effect occurs during a planet's transit. It provides the main means of measuring the sky-projected spin-orbit angle between a planet's orbital plane, and its host star's equatorial plane. Observing the Rossiter-McLaughlin effect is now a near routine procedure. It is an important element in the orbital characterisation of transiting exoplanets. Measurements of the spin-orbit angle have revealed a surprising diversity, far from the placid, Kantian and Laplacian ideals, whereby planets form, and remain, on orbital planes coincident with their star's equator. This chapter will review a short history of the Rossiter-McLaughlin effect, how it is modelled, and will summarise the current state of the field before describing other uses for a spectroscopic transit, and alternative methods of measuring the spin-orbit angle.
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@article{arxiv.1709.06376,
title = {The Rossiter-McLaughlin effect in Exoplanet Research},
author = {Amaury H. M. J. Triaud},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1709.06376},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
Review to appear as a chapter in the "Handbook of Exoplanets", ed. H. Deeg & J.A. Belmonte