Asteroseismic Determination of Obliquities of the Exoplanet
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Results on the obliquity of exoplanet host stars – the angle between the stellar spin axis and the planetary orbital axis – provide important diagnostic School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA Stellar Astrophysics Centre (SAC), Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, Ny Munkegade 120, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark Sydney Institute for Astronomy, School of Physics, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia Department and Astronomy, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA White Dwarf Research Corporation, Boulder, CO, 80301, USA Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen University, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark Centre for Star and Planet Formation, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, DK-1530 Copenhagen, Denmark McDonald Observatory, The University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712, USA Center for Exoplanets and Habitable Worlds, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 16802, USA Astronomical Institute, “Anton Pannekoek”, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands NASA Ames Research Center, MS 244-30, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, 50011, USA Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA Bay Area Environmental Research Institute, 596 First St West, Sonoma, CA 95476, USA
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