On the Spin-Orbit Misalignment of the XO-3 Exoplanetary System

On the Spin-Orbit Misalignment of the XO-3 Exoplanetary System

We present photometric and spectroscopic observations of the 2009 February 2 transit of the exoplanet XO-3b. The new data show that the planetary orbital axis and stellar rotation axis are misaligned, as reported earlier by Hébrard and coworkers. We find the angle between the sky projections of the...

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Main Authors: Winn, Joshua Nathan (Contributor), Johnson, John Asher (Author), Fabrycky, Daniel C. (Author), Howard, Andrew W. (Author), Marcy, Geoffrey W. (Author), Narita, Norio (Author), Crossfield, Ian J. (Author), Suto, Yasushi (Author), Turner, Edwin L. (Author), Esquerdo, G. A. (Author), Holman, Matthew J. (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics (Contributor), MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research (Contributor)
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Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing, 2013-02-06T16:34:04Z.
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