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2021MNRAS.502.2893K - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 502, 2893-2911 (2021/April-1)

Orbital misalignment of the super-Earth π Men c with the spin of its star.

KUNOVAC HODZIC V., TRIAUD A.H.M.J., CEGLA H.M., CHAPLIN W.J. and DAVIES G.R.

Abstract (from CDS):

Planet-planet scattering events can leave an observable trace of a planet's migration history in the form of orbital misalignment with respect to the stellar spin axis, which is measurable from spectroscopic time-series taken during transit. We present high-resolution spectroscopic transits observed with ESPRESSO of the close-in super-Earth π Men c. The system also contains an outer giant planet on a wide, eccentric orbit, recently found to be inclined with respect to the inner planetary orbit. These characteristics are reminiscent of past dynamical interactions. We successfully retrieve the planet-occulted light during transit, and find evidence that the orbit of π Men c is moderately misaligned with the stellar spin axis with λ = - 24.○0 ± 4.○1 (ψ= 26.○ 9+5.^○8 -4_.^○7 ^). This is consistent with the super-Earth π Men c having followed a high-eccentricity migration followed by tidal circularization, and hints that super-Earths can form at large distances from their star. We also detect clear signatures of solar-like oscillations within our ESPRESSO radial velocity time series, where we reach a radial velocity precision of ∼20 cm s–1. We model the oscillations using Gaussian processes (GPs) and retrieve a frequency of maximum oscillation, νmax = 2771+65–60 µHz. These oscillations make it challenging to detect the Rossiter-McLaughlin effect using traditional methods. We are, however, successful using the reloaded Rossiter-McLaughlin approach. Finally, in the appendix, we also present physical parameters and ephemerides for π Men c from a GP transit analysis of the full Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite Cycle 1 data.

Abstract Copyright: © 2021 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society

Journal keyword(s): asteroseismology - techniques: radial velocity - techniques: spectroscopic - binaries: eclipsing

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