TOI-1670 c, a 40 day Orbital Period Warm Jupiter in a Compact System, Is Well Aligned
/ Authors
J. Lubin, Xian-Yu Wang, M. Rice, Jiayin Dong, Songhu Wang, Brandon T. Radzom, P. Robertson, G. Stefansson, Jaime A. Alvarado-Montes, C. Beard
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C. Bender, Arvind F. Gupta, S. Halverson, S. Kanodia, Dan Li, Andrea S. J. Lin, S. Logsdon, Emily Lubar, S. Mahadevan, J. Ninan, J. Rajagopal, Arpita Roy, C. Schwab, Jason T. Wright
/ Abstract
We report the measurement of the sky-projected obliquity angle λ of the warm Jovian exoplanet TOI-1670 c via the Rossiter–McLaughlin effect. We observed the transit window during UT 2023 April 20 for 7 continuous hours with NEID on the 3.5 m WIYN Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory. TOI-1670 hosts a sub-Neptune (P ∼ 11 days; planet b) interior to the warm Jovian (P ∼ 40 days; planet c), which presents an opportunity to investigate the dynamics of a warm Jupiter with an inner companion. Additionally, TOI-1670 c is now among the longest-period planets to date to have its sky-projected obliquity angle measured. We find planet c is well aligned to the host star, with λ = − 0.°3 ± 2.°2. TOI-1670 c joins a growing census of aligned warm Jupiters around single stars and aligned planets in multiplanet systems.
Journal: The Astrophysical Journal Letters