Doppler Tomographic Measurement of the Nodal Precession of WASP-33b

Abstract

WASP-33b is a retrograde hot Jupiter with a period of 1.2 days orbiting around a rapidly rotating and pulsating A-type star. A previous study found that the transit chord of WASP-33b had changed slightly from 2008 to 2014 based on Doppler tomographic measurements. They attributed the change to orbital precession caused by the non-zero oblateness of the host star and the misaligned orbit. We aim to confirm and more precisely model the precession behavior using additional Doppler tomographic data of WASP-33b obtained with the High Dispersion Spectrograph on the 8.2m Subaru telescope in 2011, as well as the datasets used in the previous study. Using equations of a long-term orbital precession, we constrain the stellar gravitational quadrupole moment $J_2=(9.14\pm 0.51)\times 10^{-5}$ and the angle between the stellar spin axis and the line of sight $i_{\star }=96_{-14}^{+10}$ deg. These values update that the host star is more spherical and viewed more equator than the previous study. We also estimate that the precession period is $\sim$840 years. We also find that the precession amplitude of WASP-33b is $\sim$67 deg and WASP-33b transits in front of the host star for only $\sim$20\% of the whole precession period.

9 pages, 6 figures, published in "advance articles" of the Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan

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