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A primordial origin for misalignments between stellar spin axes and planetary orbits

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  • Konstantin Batygin

    (California Institute of Technology
    Institute for Theory and Computation, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA)

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Modelling shows that the misaligned orbits of ‘hot Jupiters’ can follow naturally from disk migration in binary systems whose orbital plane is uncorrelated with the spin axes of the individual stars.

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  • Konstantin Batygin, 2012. "A primordial origin for misalignments between stellar spin axes and planetary orbits," Nature, Nature, vol. 491(7424), pages 418-420, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:491:y:2012:i:7424:d:10.1038_nature11560
    DOI: 10.1038/nature11560
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