Nodal Precession of WASP-33b for Eleven Years by Doppler Tomographic and Transit Photometric Observations

Abstract

WASP-33b, a hot Jupiter around a hot star, is a rare system in which nodal precession has been discovered. We updated the model for the nodal precession of WASP-33b by adding new observational points. Consequently, we found a motion of the nodal precession spanning 11 years. We present homogenous Doppler tomographic analyses of eight datasets, including two new datasets from TS23 and HIDES, obtained between 2008 and 2019, to illustrate the variations in the projected spin-orbit obliquity of WASP-33b and its impact parameter. We also present its impact parameters based on photometric transit observations captured by MuSCAT in 2017 and MuSCAT2 in 2018. We derived its real spin-orbit obliquity $\psi$, stellar spin inclination $i_s$, and stellar gravitational quadrupole moment $J_2$ from the time variation models of the two orbital parameters. We obtained $\psi =108.19_{-0.97}^{+0.95}$ deg, $i_s=58.3_{-4.2}^{+4.6}$ deg, and $J_2=(1.36_{-0.12}^{+0.15})\times 10^{-4}$. Our $J_2$ value was slightly smaller than the theoretically predicted value, which may indicate that its actual stellar internal structure is different from the theoretical one. We derived the nodal precession speed $\dot{\theta }=0.507_{-0.022}^{+0.025}$ deg year${}^{-1}$, and its period $P_{\mathrm{pre}}=709_{-34}^{+33}$ years, and found that WASP-33b transits in front of WASP-33 for only $\sim$ 20 \% of the entire nodal precession period.

arXiv commentAccepted for publication in MNRAS. 15 pages, 10 figures

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