THE WELL-ALIGNED ORBIT OF WASP-84b: EVIDENCE FOR DISK MIGRATION OF A HOT JUPITER

THE WELL-ALIGNED ORBIT OF WASP-84b: EVIDENCE FOR DISK MIGRATION OF A HOT JUPITER

We report the sky-projected orbital obliquity (spin-orbit angle) of WASP-84 b, a 0.69M[subscript Jup] planet in an 8.52 day orbit around a G9V/K0V star, to be λ = −0.3 ± 1.7°. We obtain a true obliquity of ψ = 17.3 ± 7.7° from a measurement of the inclination of the stellar spin axis with respect to...

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Main Authors: Anderson, D. R. (Author), Triaud, Amaury (Contributor), Turner, O. D. (Author), Brown, D. J. A. (Author), Clark, B. J. M. (Author), Smalley, B. (Author), Cameron, A. Collier (Author), Doyle, A. P. (Author), Gillon, M. (Author), Hellier, C. (Author), Lovis, Christophe (Author), Maxted, Pierre F. L. (Author), Pollacco, D. (Author), Queloz, D. (Author), Smith, A. M. S. (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics (Contributor), MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research (Contributor)
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Language:English
Published: Institute of Physics/American Astronomical Society, 2015-04-13T17:07:16Z.
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