A nearly polar orbit for the extrasolar hot Jupiter WASP-79b
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2013
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Addison, B. C.
Tinney, C. G.
Wright, D. J.
Bayliss, Daniel
Zhou, Guyin (George)
Hartman, J. D.
Bakos, G. A.
Schmidt, Brian
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Institute of Physics Publishing Ltd.
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We report the measurement of a spin-orbit misalignment for WASP-79b, a recently discovered, bloated hot Jupiter from the Wide Angle Search for Planets (WASP) survey. Data were obtained using the CYCLOPS2 optical-fiber bundle and its simultaneous calibrati
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Keywords: planets and satellites: dynamical evolution and stability; stars: individual (WASP-79); techniques: radial velocities
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Astrophysical Journal Letters
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