Tracing the Origins and Evolution of Small Planets using Their Orbital Obliquities
Abstract
We recommend an intensive effort to survey the orbital obliquity distribution of small close-in exoplanets over the coming decade. This is a key tracer of how planets form and migrate. Over the next decade we can observe hundred of planets as small as 2 REarth, opening a window into the orbital properties of the most common planets.
- Publication:
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Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society
- Pub Date:
- May 2019
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.1903.04482
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1903.04482
- Bibcode:
- 2019BAAS...51c.258J
- Keywords:
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- Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- Submitted to the Astro2020 call for science white papers. 7 pages, 2 figures