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Crouzet, Nicolas Michael; McCullough, Peter; Montañés-Rodríguez, P.; Ribas, Ignasi; Bourrier, Vincent; Lecavelier des Etangs, Alain; Hebrard, Guillaume; Garcia-Melendo, Enrique; Herrero, Enrique; Vilardell, Francesc; Foote, Jerry; Gary, Bruce; Benni, Paul; Conjat, Matthieu; Deleuil, Magali; Akhenak, Laetitia; Garlitz, Joe; Long, Doug
Bibliographical reference
American Astronomical Society, ESS meeting #3, #114.08. BAAS volume 47 #6, November 2015.
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Description
Orbital properties of hot Jupiters depend on the temperature and
rotation rate of their host stars. These observed correlations provide
some of the very few constraints on their dynamical evolution. However,
almost all the objects available to such studies orbit around relatively
slow rotators, with stellar rotation periods usually several times
larger than the orbital periods. Because of the apparent dearth of hot
Jupiters around fast rotators, the dynamical evolution of these systems
is largely unconstrained. Here, we report the discovery of XO-6b, a hot
Jupiter orbiting a fast rotating and bright F5 star (Teff = 6605 K,
Vsini = 45 km/s, V = 10.25). This transiting hot Jupiter system is one
of the very few with a stellar rotation period smaller than the planet
orbital period (Prot < 1.41 d, Porb = 3.77 d), and adds to the sample
of hot Jupiters around hot stars with a measured obliquity. We present
the system parameters extracted from photometric follow-up and
Rossiter-McLaughlin measurements. This system provides an additional
constraint to dynamical and tidal models in their promising attempt of
explaining the dynamical evolution of close-in giant planets, and will
allow to extend the emerging picture to planets orbiting fast rotating
stars.