Rossiter-McLaughlin observations of 55 Cnc e

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Rossiter-McLaughlin observations of 55 Cnc e. / Lopez-Morales, Mercedes; Triaud, Amaury H. M. J.; Rodler, Florian; Dumusque, Xavier; Buchhave, Lars A.; Harutyunyan, Avet; Hoyer, Sergio; Alonso, Roi; Gillon, Michael; Kaib, Nathan A.; Latham, David. W.; Lovis, Christophe; Pepe, Francesco; Queloz, Didier; Raymond, Sean N.; Segransan, Damien; Waldmann, Ingo P.; Udry, Stephane.

In: The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Vol. 792, No. 2, L31, 2014.

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Harvard

Lopez-Morales, M, Triaud, AHMJ, Rodler, F, Dumusque, X, Buchhave, LA, Harutyunyan, A, Hoyer, S, Alonso, R, Gillon, M, Kaib, NA, Latham, DW, Lovis, C, Pepe, F, Queloz, D, Raymond, SN, Segransan, D, Waldmann, IP & Udry, S 2014, 'Rossiter-McLaughlin observations of 55 Cnc e', The Astrophysical Journal Letters, vol. 792, no. 2, L31. https://doi.org/10.1088/2041-8205/792/2/L31

APA

Lopez-Morales, M., Triaud, A. H. M. J., Rodler, F., Dumusque, X., Buchhave, L. A., Harutyunyan, A., Hoyer, S., Alonso, R., Gillon, M., Kaib, N. A., Latham, D. W., Lovis, C., Pepe, F., Queloz, D., Raymond, S. N., Segransan, D., Waldmann, I. P., & Udry, S. (2014). Rossiter-McLaughlin observations of 55 Cnc e. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 792(2), [L31]. https://doi.org/10.1088/2041-8205/792/2/L31

Vancouver

Lopez-Morales M, Triaud AHMJ, Rodler F, Dumusque X, Buchhave LA, Harutyunyan A et al. Rossiter-McLaughlin observations of 55 Cnc e. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 2014;792(2). L31. https://doi.org/10.1088/2041-8205/792/2/L31

Author

Lopez-Morales, Mercedes ; Triaud, Amaury H. M. J. ; Rodler, Florian ; Dumusque, Xavier ; Buchhave, Lars A. ; Harutyunyan, Avet ; Hoyer, Sergio ; Alonso, Roi ; Gillon, Michael ; Kaib, Nathan A. ; Latham, David. W. ; Lovis, Christophe ; Pepe, Francesco ; Queloz, Didier ; Raymond, Sean N. ; Segransan, Damien ; Waldmann, Ingo P. ; Udry, Stephane. / Rossiter-McLaughlin observations of 55 Cnc e. In: The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 2014 ; Vol. 792, No. 2.

Bibtex

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title = "Rossiter-McLaughlin observations of 55 Cnc e",
abstract = "We present Rossiter-McLaughlin observations of the transiting super-Earth 55 Cnc e collected during six transit events between 2012 January and 2013 November with HARPS and HARPS-N. We detect no radial velocity signal above 35 cm s–1 (3σ) and confine the stellar v sin i to 0.2 ± 0.5 km s–1. The star appears to be a very slow rotator, producing a very low amplitude Rossiter-McLaughlin effect. Given such a low amplitude, the Rossiter-McLaughlin effect of 55 Cnc e is undetected in our data, and any spin-orbit angle of the system remains possible. We also performed Doppler tomography and reach a similar conclusion. Our results offer a glimpse of the capacity of future instrumentation to study low amplitude Rossiter-McLaughlin effects produced by super-Earths.",
author = "Mercedes Lopez-Morales and Triaud, {Amaury H. M. J.} and Florian Rodler and Xavier Dumusque and Buchhave, {Lars A.} and Avet Harutyunyan and Sergio Hoyer and Roi Alonso and Michael Gillon and Kaib, {Nathan A.} and Latham, {David. W.} and Christophe Lovis and Francesco Pepe and Didier Queloz and Raymond, {Sean N.} and Damien Segransan and Waldmann, {Ingo P.} and Stephane Udry",
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RIS

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T1 - Rossiter-McLaughlin observations of 55 Cnc e

AU - Lopez-Morales, Mercedes

AU - Triaud, Amaury H. M. J.

AU - Rodler, Florian

AU - Dumusque, Xavier

AU - Buchhave, Lars A.

AU - Harutyunyan, Avet

AU - Hoyer, Sergio

AU - Alonso, Roi

AU - Gillon, Michael

AU - Kaib, Nathan A.

AU - Latham, David. W.

AU - Lovis, Christophe

AU - Pepe, Francesco

AU - Queloz, Didier

AU - Raymond, Sean N.

AU - Segransan, Damien

AU - Waldmann, Ingo P.

AU - Udry, Stephane

PY - 2014

Y1 - 2014

N2 - We present Rossiter-McLaughlin observations of the transiting super-Earth 55 Cnc e collected during six transit events between 2012 January and 2013 November with HARPS and HARPS-N. We detect no radial velocity signal above 35 cm s–1 (3σ) and confine the stellar v sin i to 0.2 ± 0.5 km s–1. The star appears to be a very slow rotator, producing a very low amplitude Rossiter-McLaughlin effect. Given such a low amplitude, the Rossiter-McLaughlin effect of 55 Cnc e is undetected in our data, and any spin-orbit angle of the system remains possible. We also performed Doppler tomography and reach a similar conclusion. Our results offer a glimpse of the capacity of future instrumentation to study low amplitude Rossiter-McLaughlin effects produced by super-Earths.

AB - We present Rossiter-McLaughlin observations of the transiting super-Earth 55 Cnc e collected during six transit events between 2012 January and 2013 November with HARPS and HARPS-N. We detect no radial velocity signal above 35 cm s–1 (3σ) and confine the stellar v sin i to 0.2 ± 0.5 km s–1. The star appears to be a very slow rotator, producing a very low amplitude Rossiter-McLaughlin effect. Given such a low amplitude, the Rossiter-McLaughlin effect of 55 Cnc e is undetected in our data, and any spin-orbit angle of the system remains possible. We also performed Doppler tomography and reach a similar conclusion. Our results offer a glimpse of the capacity of future instrumentation to study low amplitude Rossiter-McLaughlin effects produced by super-Earths.

U2 - 10.1088/2041-8205/792/2/L31

DO - 10.1088/2041-8205/792/2/L31

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VL - 792

JO - The Astrophysical Journal Letters

JF - The Astrophysical Journal Letters

SN - 2041-8205

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