TOI-1859b: A 64 Day Warm Jupiter on an Eccentric and Misaligned Orbit
Abstract
Warm Jupiters are close-in giant planets with relatively large planet-star separations (i.e., 10 < a/R ⋆ < 100). Given their weak tidal interactions with their host stars, measurements of stellar obliquity may be used to probe the initial obliquity distribution and dynamical history for close-in gas giants. Using spectroscopic observations, we confirm the planetary nature of TOI-1859b and determine the stellar obliquity of TOI-1859 to be λ = 38.9 ${}_{-2.7}^{+2.8}$ ° relative to its planetary companion using the Rossiter-McLaughlin effect. TOI-1859b is a 64 day warm Jupiter orbiting around a late F dwarf and has an orbital eccentricity of 0.57 ${}_{-0.16}^{+0.12}$ inferred purely from transit light curves. The eccentric and misaligned orbit of TOI-1859b is likely an outcome of dynamical interactions, such as planet-planet scattering and planet-disk resonance crossing.
- Publication:
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The Astrophysical Journal
- Pub Date:
- July 2023
- DOI:
- 10.3847/2041-8213/acd93d
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2305.16495
- Bibcode:
- 2023ApJ...951L..29D
- Keywords:
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- Extrasolar gaseous giant planets;
- Exoplanet dynamics;
- Radial velocity;
- Transit photometry;
- 509;
- 490;
- 1332;
- 1709;
- Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- 15 pages, 7 figures, 1 table