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| Subject: Misaligned orbit for sub-Earth-sized Kepler-408 b 6th February 2019, 9:37 pm | |
| The misaligned orbit of the Earth-sized planet Kepler-408b https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.02057 - Quote :
- Kepler-408 is one of the 33 planet-hosting {\it Kepler} stars for which asteroseismology has been used to investigate the orientation of the stellar rotation axis relative to the planetary orbital plane. The transiting "hot Earth," Kepler-408b, has an orbital period of 2.5 days and a radius of 0.86~R⊕, making it much smaller than the planets for which spin-orbit alignment has been studied using the Rossiter-McLaughlin effect. Because conflicting asteroseismic results have been reported in the literature, we undertake a thorough re-appraisal of this system and perform numerous checks for consistency and robustness. We find that the conflicting results are due to the different models for the low-frequency noise in the power spectrum. A careful treatment of the background noise resolves these conflicts, and shows that the stellar inclination is $\is=42^{+5}_{-4}$ degrees. Kepler-408b is, by far, the smallest planet known to have a significantly misaligned orbit.
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