Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2007-12-16
PASJ Letters, 2008, Vol.60, No.2, pp.L1-L5
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
5 pages, 2 figures, 3 tables. Accepted for publication in PASJ Letters (Vol. 60, No. 2)
Scientific paper
We present simultaneous photometric and spectroscopic observations of HD 17156b spanning a transit on UT 2007 November 12. This system is of special interest because of its 21-day period (unusually long for a transiting planet) and its high orbital eccentricity of 0.67. By modeling the Rossiter-McLaughlin effect, we find the angle between the sky projections of the orbital axis and the stellar rotation axis to be $62^{\circ} \pm 25^{\circ}$. Such a large spin-orbit misalignment, as well as the large eccentricity, could be explained as the relic of a previous gravitational interaction with other planets.
Narita Norio
Ohshima Osamu
Sato Bun'ei
Winn Joshua N.
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