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A window on exoplanet dynamical histories: Rossiter-McLaughlin observations of WASP-13b and WASP-32b
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(2014) A window on exoplanet dynamical histories: Rossiter-McLaughlin observations of WASP-13b and WASP-32b. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 440 (Number 4). pp. 3392-3401. doi:10.1093/mnras/stu520 ISSN 0035-8711. An open access version can be found in:
Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu520
Abstract
We present Rossiter–McLaughlin observations of WASP-13b and WASP-32b and determine the sky-projected angle between the normal of the planetary orbit and the stellar rotation axis (λ). WASP-13b and WASP-32b both have prograde orbits and are consistent with alignment with measured sky-projected angles of λ=8∘+13−12 and λ=−2∘+17−19, respectively. Both WASP-13 and WASP-32 have Teff < 6250 K, and therefore, these systems support the general trend that aligned planetary systems are preferentially found orbiting cool host stars. A Lomb–Scargle periodogram analysis was carried out on archival SuperWASP data for both systems. A statistically significant stellar rotation period detection (above 99.9 per cent confidence) was identified for the WASP-32 system with Prot = 11.6 ± 1.0 days. This rotation period is in agreement with the predicted stellar rotation period calculated from the stellar radius, R*, and vsin i if a stellar inclination of i* = 90° is assumed. With the determined rotation period, the true 3D angle between the stellar rotation axis and the planetary orbit, ψ, was found to be ψ = 11° ± 14°. We conclude with a discussion on the alignment of systems around cool host stars with Teff < 6150 K by calculating the tidal dissipation time-scale. We find that systems with short tidal dissipation time-scales are preferentially aligned and systems with long tidal dissipation time-scales have a broad range of obliquities.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Physics | ||||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | ||||||||||
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press | ||||||||||
| ISSN: | 0035-8711 | ||||||||||
| Official Date: | 1 June 2014 | ||||||||||
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| Volume: | Volume 440 | ||||||||||
| Number: | Number 4 | ||||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 3392-3401 | ||||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1093/mnras/stu520 | ||||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||||
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