2022AJ....164..104R -
Astron. J., 164, 104 (2022/September-0)
A Tendency Toward Alignment in Single-star Warm-Jupiter Systems.
RICE M., WANG S., WANG X.-Y., STEFANSSON G., ISAACSON H., HOWARD A.W., LOGSDON S.E., SCHWEIKER H., DAI F., BRINKMAN C., GIACALONE S. and HOLCOMB R.
Abstract (from CDS):
The distribution of spin-orbit angles for systems with wide-separation, tidally detached exoplanets offers a unique constraint on the prevalence of dynamically violent planetary evolution histories. Tidally detached planets provide a relatively unbiased view of the primordial stellar obliquity distribution, as they cannot tidally realign within the system lifetime. We present the third result from our Stellar Obliquities in Long-period Exoplanet Systems (SOLES) survey: a measurement of the Rossiter-McLaughlin effect across two transits of the tidally detached warm Jupiter TOI-1478 b with the WIYN/NEID and Keck/HIRES spectrographs, revealing a sky-projected spin-orbit angle $\lambda ={6.2}_{-5.5}^{+5.9^\circ} $. Combining this new measurement with the full set of archival obliquity measurements, including two previous constraints from the SOLES survey, we demonstrate that, in single-star systems, tidally detached warm Jupiters are preferentially more aligned than closer-orbiting hot Jupiters. This finding has two key implications: (1) planets in single-star systems tend to form within aligned protoplanetary disks, and (2) warm Jupiters form more quiescently than hot Jupiters, which, in single-star systems, are likely perturbed into a misaligned state through planet-planet interactions in the post-disk-dispersal phase. We also find that lower-mass Saturns span a wide range of spin-orbit angles, suggesting a prevalence of planet-planet scattering and/or secular mechanisms in these systems.
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© 2022. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society.
Journal keyword(s):
Planetary alignment - Exoplanet dynamics - Exoplanet evolution - Star-planet interactions - Exoplanets - Planetary theory - Exoplanet systems - Exoplanet astronomy - Planetary dynamics - Hot Jupiters - Protoplanetary disks
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