Rossiter-McLaughlin Observations of 55 Cnc e

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2014ApJ...792L..31L
DOI
10.1088/2041-8205/792/2/L31
López-Morales, M.; Triaud, Amaury H. M. J.; Rodler, Florian; Dumusque, Xavier; Buchhave, Lars A.; Harutyunyan, Avet; Hoyer, S.; Alonso, R.; Gillon, Michaël; Kaib, Nathan A.; Latham, David. W.; Lovis, Christophe; Pepe, Francesco; Queloz, Didier; Raymond, Sean N.; Ségransan, Damien; Waldmann, Ingo P.; Udry, Stéphane
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The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 792, Issue 2, article id. L31, 6 pp. (2014).

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2014
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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 sstarf 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.
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