Obliquities of hot Jupiter host stars: Evidence for tidal interactions and primordial misalignments

Obliquities of hot Jupiter host stars: Evidence for tidal interactions and primordial misalignments

We provide evidence that the obliquities of stars with close-in giant planets were initially nearly random, and that the low obliquities that are often observed are a consequence of star-planet tidal interactions. The evidence is based on 14 new measurements of the Rossiter-McLaughlin effect (for th...

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Main Authors: Albrecht, Simon H., Winn, Joshua Nathan, Johnson, John Asher, Howard, Andrew W., Marcy, Geoffrey W., Butler, R. Paul, Arriagada, Pamela, Crane, Jeffrey D., Shectman, Stephen A., Thompson, Ian B., Hirano, Teruyuki, Bakos, Gaspar A., Hartman, Joel D.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: IOP Publishing 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/76736
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4265-047X

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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/76736
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4265-047X

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