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Spin-Orbit Alignment Angles and Planetary Migration of Jovian Exoplanets Norio Narita National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
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Outline Brief review of orbits of Solar System bodies Introduction of exoplanets and migration models How to measure spin-orbit alignment angles of exoplanets Previous observations and results Summary and conclusions
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Orbits of the Solar System Planets All planets orbit in the same direction small orbital eccentricities At a maximum (Mercury) e = 0.2 small orbital inclinations The spin axis of the Sun and the orbital axes of planets are aligned within 7 degrees In almost the same orbital plane (ecliptic plane) The configuration is explained by core-accretion models in proto-planetary disks
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Orbits of Solar System Asteroids and Satellites Asteroids most of asteroids orbits in the ecliptic plane significant portion of asteroids have tilted orbits 24 retrograde asteroids have been discovered so far Satellites orbital axes of satellites are mostly aligned with the spin axis of host planets dozens of satellites have tilted orbits or even retrograde orbits (e.g., Triton around Neptune) These highly tilted or retrograde orbits are explained by gravitational interaction with planets or Kozai mechanism
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Motivation Orbits of the Solar System bodies reflect the formation history of the Solar System How about extrasolar planets? Planetary orbits would provide us information about formation histories of exoplanetary systems!
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First discovered in 1995, by Swiss astronomers (below) So far, over 400 candidates of exoplanets have been found at 10 th anniversary conference Left: Didier Queloz Right: Michel Mayor Introduction of Exoplanets
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Semi-Major Axis Distribution of Exoplanets Need planetary migration mechanisms! Snow line Jupiter
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Standard Migration Models consider gravitational interaction between proto-planetary disk and planets Type I: less than 10 Earth mass proto-planets Type II: more massive case (Jovian planets) well explain the semi-major axis distribution e.g., a series of Ida & Lin papers predict small eccentricities and small inclination for migrated planets Type I and II migration mechanisms
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Eccentricity Distribution Cannot be explained by Type I & II migration model Jupiter Eccentric Planets
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Migration Models for Eccentric Planets consider gravitational interaction between planet-planet (planet-planet scattering models) planet-binary companion (Kozai migration) may be able to explain eccentricity distribution e.g., Nagasawa+ 2008, Chatterjee+ 2008 predict a variety of eccentricities and also misalignments between stellar-spin and planetary-orbital axes ejected planet
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Example of Misalignment Prediction 0306090120150180 deg Nagasawa, Ida, & Bessho (2008) Misaligned and even retrograde planets are predicted. How can we test these models by observations?
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Planetary transits 2006/11/9 transit of Mercury observed with Hinode transit in the Solar System If a planetary orbit passes in front of its host star by chance, we can observe exoplanetary transits as periodical dimming. transit in exoplanetary systems (we cannot spatially resolve) slightly dimming
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The first exoplanetary transits Charbonneau+ (2000) for HD209458b
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Transiting planets are increasing So far 62 transiting planets have been discovered.
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The Rossiter-McLaughlin effect the planet hides the approaching side → the star appears to be receding the planet hides the receding side → the star appears to be approaching planet star When a transiting planet hides stellar rotation, radial velocity of the host star would have an apparent anomaly during transits.
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What can we learn from RM effect? Gaudi & Winn (2007) The shape of RM effect depends on the trajectory of the transiting planet. well aligned misaligned Radial velocity during transits = the Keplerian motion and the RM effect
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Observable parameter λ : sky-projected angle between the stellar spin axis and the planetary orbital axis (e.g., Ohta+ 2005, Gimentz 2006, Gaudi & Winn 2007)
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Note: orbital inclination Sun’s equatorial plane planetary orbital plane Sun’s spin axis Earth planetary orbital plane line of sight from the Earth normal vector of line of sight orbital inclination in the Solar System orbital inclination in exoplanetary science spin-orbit alignment angle in exoplanetary science
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HD209458 Queloz+ 2000, Winn+ 2005 HD189733 Winn+ 2006 TrES-1 Narita+ 2007 HAT-P-2 Winn+ 2007, Loeillet+ 2008 HD149026 Wolf+ 2007 HD17156 Narita+ 2008,2009, Cochran+ 2008, Barbieri+ 2009 TrES-2 Winn+ 2008 CoRoT-2 Bouchy+ 2008 XO-3 Hebrard+ 2008, Winn+ 2009 HAT-P-1 Johnson+ 2008 HD80606 Moutou+ 2009, Pont+ 2009, Winn+ 2009 WASP-14 Joshi+ 2008, Johnson+ 2009 HAT-P-7 Narita+ 2009, Winn+ 2009 WASP-17 Anderson+ 2009 CoRoT-1 Pont+ 2009 TrES-4 Narita+ to be submitted Previous studies Red: Eccentric Blue: Binary Green: Both
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Subaru Radial Velocity Observations Iodine cell HDS Subaru
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Prograde Planet: TrES-1b Our first observation with Subaru/HDS Thanks to Subaru, clear detection of the Rossiter effect. We confirmed a prograde orbit and the spin-orbit alignment of the planet. NN et al. (2007)
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Aligned Ecctentric Planet: HD17156b Well aligned in spite of its eccentricity. Eccentric planet with the orbital period of 21.2 days. NN et al. (2009a) λ = 10.0 ± 5.1 deg
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Aligned Binary Planet: TrES-4b NN et al. in prep. Well aligned in spite of its binarity. NN et al. in prep. λ = 5.3 ± 4.7 deg
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Misaligned Eccentric Planet: XO-3b Winn et al. (2009a) λ = 37.3 ± 3.7 deg Hebrard et al. (2008) λ = 70 ± 15 deg
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Misaligned Eccentric Planet: WASP-14b Johnson et al. (2009) λ = -33.1 ± 7.4 deg
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Misaligned Binary Planet: HD80606b Winn et al. (2009b) λ = 53 (+34, -21) deg Pont et al. (2009) λ = 50 (+61, -36) deg
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Retrograde Exoplanet: HAT-P-7b NN et al. (2009b) Winn et al. (2009c)
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Note: Implication of the results Planetary system seen from the Earth We have not yet learned the inclination of the stellar spin axis Earth The planet is in a retrograde orbit when seen from the Earth The true spin-orbit alignment angle will be determined when the Kepler photometric data are available (by asteroseismology)
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Another Retrograde Exoplanet: WASP-17b Anderson et al. (2009)
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Summary of RM Studies Exoplanets have a diversity in orbital distributions We can measure spin-orbit alignment angles of exoplanets by spectroscopic transit observations 4 out of 6 eccentric planets have highly tilted orbits spin-orbit misalignments may be common for eccentric planets 2 out of 10 non-eccentric planets also show misaligned orbits spin-orbit misalignements are rare for non-eccentric planets we can add samples to learn a statistical population of alinged/misaligned/retrograde planets (future task)
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Conclusions and Future Prospects Recent observations support planetary migration models considering not only disk-planet interactions, but also planet- planet scattering and the Kozai migration The diversity of orbital distributions would be brought by the various planetary migration mechanisms We will be able to conduct similar studies for extrasolar terrestrial planets in the future
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