Projected spin-orbit alignments from Kepler asteroseismology and Gaia astrometry
Projected spin-orbit alignments from Kepler asteroseismology and Gaia astrometry
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开普勒星震学和盖亚天体测量学预测的自旋轨道排列
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10.1093/mnrasl/slad012
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2023
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Ball W
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The angle between the rotation and orbital axes of stars in binary systems – the obliquity – is an important indicator of how these systems form and evolve, but few such measurements exist. We combine the sample of astrometric orbital inclinations fromGaiaData Release 3 with a sample of solar-like oscillators in which rotational inclinations have been measured using asteroseismology. We supplement our sample with one binary whose visual orbit has been determined using speckle interferometry and present the projected spin–orbit alignments in five systems. We find that each system, and the overall sample, is consistent with alignment but there are important caveats. First, the asteroseismic rotational inclinations are fundamentally ambiguous and, secondly, we can only measure the projected (rather than true) obliquity. If rotational and orbital inclinations are independent and isotropically distributed, the likelihood of drawing our data by chance is less than a few per cent. Though small, our data set argues against uniformly random obliquities in binary systems. We speculate that dozens more measurements could be made using data from NASA’sTransiting Exoplanet Survey Satellitemission, mostly in red giants. ESA’sPLAnetary Transits and Oscillationsmission will likely produce hundreds more spin–orbit measurements in systems with main-sequence and subgiant stars.
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1960
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L. Binnendijk
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L. Binnendijk