A puffy polar planet The low density, hot Jupiter TOI-640 b is on a polar orbit
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2023

TOI-640 b is a hot, puffy Jupiter with a mass of 0.57 +/- 0.02 M-J and radius of 1.72 +/- 0.05 R-J, orbiting a slightly evolved F-type star with a separation of 6.33(-0.06)(+0.07) R-star. Through spectroscopic in-transit observations made with the HARPS spectrograph, we measured the Rossiter-McLaughlin effect, analysing both in-transit radial velocities and the distortion of the stellar spectral lines. From these observations, we find the host star to have a projected obliquity of lambda = 184 +/- 3 degrees. From the TESS light curve, we measured the stellar rotation period, allowing us to determine the stellar inclination, i(star) = 23(-2)(+3 degrees), meaning we are viewing the star pole-on. Combining this with the orbital inclination allowed us to calculate the host star obliquity, psi = 104 +/- 2(degrees). TOI-640 b joins a group of planets orbiting over stellar poles within the range 80(degrees)-125 degrees. The origin of this orbital configuration is not well understood.

techniques: photometric

planets and satellites:gaseous planets

techniques: spectroscopic

planet-star interactions

Författare

Emil Knudstrup

Aarhus Universitet

Simon H. Albrecht

Aarhus Universitet

Davide Gandolfi

Universita degli Studi di Torino

Marcus L. Marcussen

Aarhus Universitet

Elisa Goffo

Universita degli Studi di Torino

Thüringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg

Luisa M. Serrano

Universita degli Studi di Torino

Fei Dai

California Institute of Technology (Caltech)

Seth Redfield

Wesleyan University

Teruyuki Hirano

National Astronomical Observatory of Japan

Astrobiology Center, Japan

Szilard Csizmadia

Deutsches Zentrums für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR)

William D. Cochran

The University of Texas at Austin

Hans J. Deeg

Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias

Universidad de la Laguna

Malcolm Fridlund

Chalmers, Rymd-, geo- och miljövetenskap, Astronomi och plasmafysik

Kristine W. F. Lam

Deutsches Zentrums für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR)

John H. Livingston

National Astronomical Observatory of Japan

The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI)

Astrobiology Center, Japan

Rafael Luque

University of Chicago

Norio Narita

University of Tokyo

Astrobiology Center, Japan

Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias

Enric Palle

Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias

Universidad de la Laguna

Carina Persson

Chalmers, Rymd-, geo- och miljövetenskap, Astronomi och plasmafysik

Vincent Van Eylen

University College London (UCL)

Astronomy and Astrophysics

0004-6361 (ISSN) 1432-0746 (eISSN)

Vol. 671 A164

Ämneskategorier

Astronomi, astrofysik och kosmologi

Annan fysik

Teoretisk kemi

DOI

10.1051/0004-6361/202245301

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2023-09-01