A high stellar obliquity in the WASP-7 exoplanetary system

A high stellar obliquity in the WASP-7 exoplanetary system

We measure a tilt of 86° ± 6° between the sky projections of the rotation axis of the WASP-7 star and the orbital axis of its close-in giant planet. This measurement is based on observations of the Rossiter-McLaughlin (RM) effect with the Planet Finder Spectrograph on the Magellan II telescope. The...

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Main Authors: Albrecht, Simon H., Winn, Joshua Nathan, Butler, R. Paul, Crane, Jeffrey D., Shectman, Stephen A., Thompso, Ian B., Hirano, Teruyuki, Wittenmyer, Robert A.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: IOP Publishing 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/72015
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4265-047X

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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/72015
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4265-047X

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