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Stellar obliquities in exoplanetary systems. Massachusetts Institute of Technology . Josh Winn. Simon Albrecht, Roberto Sanchis -Ojeda, Teruyuki Hirano Andrew Howard, John Johnson , Geoff Marcy Bill Cochran, Dan Fabrycky , the Kepler team. obliquity ( n . )
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Stellar obliquities in exoplanetary systems Massachusetts Institute of Technology Josh Winn • Simon Albrecht, Roberto Sanchis-Ojeda, Teruyuki Hirano • Andrew Howard, John Johnson,Geoff Marcy • Bill Cochran, Dan Fabrycky, the Keplerteam
obliquity (n.) 1 : deviation from parallelism 2 : a deviation from moral rectitude or sound thinking
Eccentricity Jupiter Semimajor axis [AU]
Eccentricity Low obliquity Disk-planet interactions Semimajor axis [AU]
Few-body dynamics High obliquity Tidal dissipation Eccentricity Low obliquity Disk-planet interactions Semimajor axis [AU]
l = 100° l = 0°
l = 100° l = 0°
l = 100° l = 0°
l = 100° l = 0°
l = 100° l = 0° …
l = 100° l = 0° …
l = 100° l = 0° …
l = 100° l = 0° Thestarspot-anomaly pattern reveals the stellar obliquity Sanchis-Ojeda et al. (2011 a,b) Nutzman, Fabrycky, & Fortney (2011) …
Corot-2 Nutzman, Fabrycky, & Fortney (2011)
Corot-2 Observed Calculated (l = 0°) l = 5 ± 12° Nutzman, Fabrycky, & Fortney (2011) — see also Désert et al. (2011)
HAT-P-11 Sanchis-Ojeda & Winn (2011)
Time from midtransit [days] Sanchis-Ojeda & Winn (2011)
Flux Time The Rossiter-McLaughlin effect
Doppler shift Time The Rossiter-McLaughlin effect
Doppler shift Time The Rossiter-McLaughlin effect
Doppler shift Time The Rossiter-McLaughlin effect
Doppler shift Time The Rossiter-McLaughlin effect
Doppler shift Time The Rossiter-McLaughlin effect
Measuring the projected obliquity Queloz et al. (2000); Ohta, Taruya, & Suto(2005); Gaudi &Winn (2007)
Low obliquity HD 189733 l = –1.4° ± 1.1° Winn et al. (2006); see also Triaud et al. (2009)
Moderate obliquity XO-3 l = 37.3° ± 3.0° Hirano et al. (2011); see also Hébrard et al. (2008), Winn et al. (2009)
High obliquity (retrograde) Winn et al. (2009) Narita et al. (2009) Triaud et al. (2010)
Valenti & Fischer (2005) Pinsonneault et al. (2001)
Different Q’s for realignment and orbital decay (D. Lai, in preparation)
KOI-63 1.0 M , 1.0 R P = 9.4 days Rp = 6.5 R
Prot = 5.4 days ≈ (4/7) Porb