HARPS-N Reveals a Well-aligned Orbit for the Highly Eccentric Warm Jupiter TOI-4127 b
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| author | Mireles, Ismael Murgas, Felipe Dragomir, Diana Pallé, Enric Dong, Jiayin Carleo, Ilaria Esparza-Borges, Emma |
| author_facet | Mireles, Ismael Murgas, Felipe Dragomir, Diana Pallé, Enric Dong, Jiayin Carleo, Ilaria Esparza-Borges, Emma |
| contents | While many hot Jupiter systems have a measured obliquity, few warm Jupiter systems do. The longer orbital periods and transit durations of warm Jupiters make it more difficult to measure the obliquities of their host stars. However, the longer periods also mean any misalignments persist due to the longer tidal realignment timescales. As a result, measuring these obliquities is necessary to understand how these types of planets form and how their formation and evolution differ from that of hot Jupiters. Here, we report the measurement of the Rossiter-McLaughlin effect for the TOI-4127 system using the HARPS-N spectrograph. We model the system using our new HARPS-N radial velocity measurements in addition to archival TESS photometry and NEID and SOPHIE radial velocities. We find that the host star is well-aligned with the highly eccentric (e=0.75) warm Jupiter TOI-4127 b, with a sky-projected obliquity $λ = {4^\circ}^{+17^\circ}_{-16^\circ}$. This makes TOI-4127 one of the most eccentric well-aligned systems to date and one of the longest period systems with a measured obliquity. Conclusions. The origin of its highly eccentric yet well-aligned orbit remains a mystery, however, and we investigate possible scenarios that could explain it. While typical in-situ formation and disk migration scenarios cannot explain this system, certain scenarios involving resonant interactions between the planet and protoplanetary disc could. Similarly, specific cases of planet-planet scattering or Kozai-Lidov oscillations can result in a highly-eccentric and well-aligned orbit. Coplanar high-eccentricity migration could also explain this system. However, both this mechanism and Kozai-Lidov oscillations require an additional planet in the system that has not yet been detected. |
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| spellingShingle | HARPS-N Reveals a Well-aligned Orbit for the Highly Eccentric Warm Jupiter TOI-4127 b Mireles, Ismael Murgas, Felipe Dragomir, Diana Pallé, Enric Dong, Jiayin Carleo, Ilaria Esparza-Borges, Emma Earth and Planetary Astrophysics While many hot Jupiter systems have a measured obliquity, few warm Jupiter systems do. The longer orbital periods and transit durations of warm Jupiters make it more difficult to measure the obliquities of their host stars. However, the longer periods also mean any misalignments persist due to the longer tidal realignment timescales. As a result, measuring these obliquities is necessary to understand how these types of planets form and how their formation and evolution differ from that of hot Jupiters. Here, we report the measurement of the Rossiter-McLaughlin effect for the TOI-4127 system using the HARPS-N spectrograph. We model the system using our new HARPS-N radial velocity measurements in addition to archival TESS photometry and NEID and SOPHIE radial velocities. We find that the host star is well-aligned with the highly eccentric (e=0.75) warm Jupiter TOI-4127 b, with a sky-projected obliquity $λ = {4^\circ}^{+17^\circ}_{-16^\circ}$. This makes TOI-4127 one of the most eccentric well-aligned systems to date and one of the longest period systems with a measured obliquity. Conclusions. The origin of its highly eccentric yet well-aligned orbit remains a mystery, however, and we investigate possible scenarios that could explain it. While typical in-situ formation and disk migration scenarios cannot explain this system, certain scenarios involving resonant interactions between the planet and protoplanetary disc could. Similarly, specific cases of planet-planet scattering or Kozai-Lidov oscillations can result in a highly-eccentric and well-aligned orbit. Coplanar high-eccentricity migration could also explain this system. However, both this mechanism and Kozai-Lidov oscillations require an additional planet in the system that has not yet been detected. |
| title | HARPS-N Reveals a Well-aligned Orbit for the Highly Eccentric Warm Jupiter TOI-4127 b |
| topic | Earth and Planetary Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22972 |