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THE TRANSIT INGRESS AND THE TILTED ORBIT OF THE EXTRAORDINARILY ECCENTRIC EXOPLANET HD 80606b

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Joshua N. Winn1, Andrew W. Howard2,3,15, John Asher Johnson4,16, Geoffrey W. Marcy2, J. Zachary Gazak4, Donn Starkey5, Eric B. Ford6, Knicole D. Colón6, Francisco Reyes6, Lisa Nortmann7, Stefan Dreizler7, Stephen Odewahn8, William F. Welsh9, Shimonee Kadakia9, Robert J. Vanderbei10, Elisabeth R. Adams11, Matthew Lockhart11, Ian J. Crossfield12, Jeff A. Valenti13, Ronald Dantowitz14 and Joshua A. Carter1

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We present the results of a transcontinental campaign to observe the 2009 June 5 transit of the exoplanet HD 80606b. We report the first detection of the transit ingress, revealing the transit duration to be 11.64 ± 0.25 hr and allowing more robust determinations of the system parameters. Keck spectra obtained at midtransit exhibit an anomalous blueshift, giving definitive evidence that the stellar spin axis and planetary orbital axis are misaligned. The Keck data show that the projected spin-orbit angle λ is between 32° and 87° with 68.3% confidence and between 14° and 142° with 99.73% confidence. Thus, the orbit of this planet is not only highly eccentric (e = 0.93) but is also tilted away from the equatorial plane of its parent star. A large tilt had been predicted, based on the idea that the planet's eccentric orbit was caused by the Kozai mechanism. Independently of the theory, it is worth noting that all three exoplanetary systems with known spin-orbit misalignments have massive planets on eccentric orbits, suggesting that those systems migrate through a different channel than lower mass planets on circular orbits.


Keywords

planetary systems; planetary systems: formation; stars: individual (HD 80606); stars: rotation


Dates

Issue 2 (2009 October 1)

Received 2009 July 14, accepted for publication 2009 August 19

Published 2009 September 16



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