A Prograde, Low-Inclination Orbit for the Very Hot Jupiter WASP-3b

We present new spectroscopic and photometric observations of the transiting exo- planetary system WASP-3. Spectra obtained during two separate transits exhibit the Rossiter-McLaughlin (RM) effect and allow us to estimate the sky-projected angle be- tween the planetary orbital axis and the stellar ro...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Tripathi, Anjali (Contributor), Winn, Joshua Nathan (Contributor), Johnson, John Asher (Author), Howard, Andrew W. (Author), Halverson, Sam (Author), Marcy, Geoffrey W. (Author), Holman, Matthew J. (Author), de Kleer, Katherine R. (Contributor), Carter, Joshua Adam (Contributor), Esquerdo, G. A. (Author), Everett, Mark E. (Author), Cabrera, Nicole E. (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics (Contributor), MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing, 2011-03-16T19:49:00Z.
Subjects:
Online Access:Get fulltext
LEADER 02414 am a22003973u 4500
001 61708
042 |a dc 
100 1 0 |a Tripathi, Anjali  |e author 
100 1 0 |a Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics  |e contributor 
100 1 0 |a MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research  |e contributor 
100 1 0 |a Winn, Joshua Nathan  |e contributor 
100 1 0 |a Tripathi, Anjali  |e contributor 
100 1 0 |a Winn, Joshua Nathan  |e contributor 
100 1 0 |a de Kleer, Katherine R.  |e contributor 
100 1 0 |a Carter, Joshua Adam  |e contributor 
700 1 0 |a Winn, Joshua Nathan  |e author 
700 1 0 |a Johnson, John Asher  |e author 
700 1 0 |a Howard, Andrew W.  |e author 
700 1 0 |a Halverson, Sam  |e author 
700 1 0 |a Marcy, Geoffrey W.  |e author 
700 1 0 |a Holman, Matthew J.  |e author 
700 1 0 |a de Kleer, Katherine R.  |e author 
700 1 0 |a Carter, Joshua Adam  |e author 
700 1 0 |a Esquerdo, G. A.  |e author 
700 1 0 |a Everett, Mark E.  |e author 
700 1 0 |a Cabrera, Nicole E.  |e author 
245 0 0 |a A Prograde, Low-Inclination Orbit for the Very Hot Jupiter WASP-3b 
260 |b IOP Publishing,   |c 2011-03-16T19:49:00Z. 
856 |z Get fulltext  |u http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/61708 
520 |a We present new spectroscopic and photometric observations of the transiting exo- planetary system WASP-3. Spectra obtained during two separate transits exhibit the Rossiter-McLaughlin (RM) effect and allow us to estimate the sky-projected angle be- tween the planetary orbital axis and the stellar rotation axis, = 3.3+2.5 −4.4 degrees. This alignment between the axes suggests that WASP-3b has a low orbital inclination rela- tive to the equatorial plane of its parent star. During our first night of spectroscopic measurements, we observed an unexpected redshift briefly exceeding the expected sum of the orbital and RM velocities by 140 m s−1. This anomaly could represent the oc- cultation of material erupting from the stellar photosphere, although it is more likely to be an artifact caused by moonlight scattered into the spectrograph. 
520 |a United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) (NNX09AD36G) 
520 |a United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) (NNX09AB33G) 
520 |a National Science Foundation (U.S.) (Grant No. AST-0702821) 
546 |a en_US 
655 7 |a Article 
773 |t Astrophysical Journal