HOT STARS WITH HOT JUPITERS HAVE HIGH OBLIQUITIES
Published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters • Jul 12, 2010
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Joshua N. Winn
Daniel C. Fabrycky
Simon Albrecht
Abstract
We show that stars with transiting planets for which the stellar obliquity is large are preferentially hot (T_(eff) > 6250 K). This could explain why small obliquities were observed in the earliest measurements, which focused on relatively cool stars drawn from Doppler surveys, as opposed to hotter ...
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