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Astrophysics > Earth and Planetary Astrophysics

Title: Nodal precession of a hot Jupiter transiting the edge of a late A-type star TOI-1518

Abstract: TOI-1518b, a hot Jupiter around a late A-type star, is one of the few planetary systems that transit the edge of the stellar surface (the impact parameter $b\sim0.9 $) among hot Jupiters around hot stars (Cabot et al. 2021). The high rotation speed of the host star ($\sim85$ km s$^{-1}$) and the nearly polar orbit of the planet ($\sim 120$ deg) may cause a nodal precession. In this study, we report the nodal precession undergone by TOI-1518\,b. This system is the fourth planetary system in which nodal precession is detected. We investigate the time change in $b$ from the photometric data of TOI-1518 acquired in 2019 and 2022 with TESS and from the spectral transit data of TOI-1518b obtained in 2020 with two high-dispersion spectrographs; CARMENES and EXPRES. We find that the value of $b$ is decreasing with $db/dt=-0.0116\pm0.0036$\,year$^{-1}$, indicating that the transit trajectory is moving toward the center of the stellar surface. We also estimate the minimum value of the quadrupole mass moment of TOI-1518 $J_{2,\mathrm{min}}=4.41\times 10^{-5}$ and the logarithm of the Love number of TOI-1518 $\log{k_2}= -2.17\pm 0.33$ from the nodal precession.
Comments: 14 pages, 9 figures, 3 tables, accepted for Publication in PASJ; including figure correction and adding references
Subjects: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
Cite as: arXiv:2402.17325 [astro-ph.EP]
  (or arXiv:2402.17325v2 [astro-ph.EP] for this version)

Submission history

From: Noriharu Watanabe [view email]
[v1] Tue, 27 Feb 2024 09:02:10 GMT (10899kb,D)
[v2] Sun, 21 Apr 2024 15:59:30 GMT (11089kb,D)

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