Further Observations of the Tilted Planet XO-3: A New Determination of Spin-Orbit Misalignment, and Limits on Differential Rotation
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Hirano, Teruyuki
Winn, Joshua Nathan
Sato, Bunei
Aoki, Wako
Tamura, Motohide
Taruya, Atsushi
Suto, Yasushi
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December 2011
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan
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Astronomical Society of Japan
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Hirano, Teruyuki et al. “Further Observations of the Tilted Planet XO-3: A New Determination of Spin-Orbit Misalignment, and Limits on Differential Rotation.” Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan 63 (2011): L57–L61.
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Abstract: We report on observations of the Rossiter-McLaughlin (RM) effect for the XO-3 exoplanetary system. The RM effect for the system was previously measured by two different groups, but their results were statistically inconsistent. To obtain a decisive result we observed two full transits of XO-3b with the Subaru 8.2-m telescope. By modeling these data with a new and more accurate analytic formula for the RM effect, we find the projected spin-orbit angle to be λ=37.3 deg ± 3.0 deg, in good agreement with the previous finding by Winn et al. (2009). In addition, an offset of ~22 m/s[superscript -1] was observed between the two transit datasets. This offset could be a signal of a third body in the XO-3 system, a possibility that should be checked with future observations. We also attempt to search for a possible signature of the stellar differential rotation in the RM data for the first time, and put weak upper limits on the differential rotation parameters.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
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https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1108.4493
