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Peer-reviewedCC BY 4.0The Astrophysical Journal Letters

Does HD 3167 Have Planets with Perpendicular Orbits?

  • Joshua N. Winn1
  • Jack Lubin2
  • Gumundur Stefánsson1,3,4
  • Haochuan Yu1,5
  • Erik Petigura2
  • Howard Isaacson6
  • Andrew W. Howard7
  • Fei Dai8
8 affiliations
  1. 1Princeton University
  2. 2University of California Los Angeles
  3. 3University of Amsterdam
  4. 4Astrophysics & Space Center
  5. 5University of Oxford
  6. 6University of California at Berkeley
  7. 7California Institute of Technology
  8. 8University of Hawaii
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Abstract

The two transiting planets of HD 3167 were reported to follow nearly perpendicular paths, with the inner orbit aligned with the stellar equator and the outer orbit nearly polar. This interpretation depends critically on a challenging single-transit detection of the Rossiter–McLaughlin effect of the inner planet. We observed three additional transits of the inner planet with the Keck Planet Finder and analyzed the new data together with two archival ESPRESSO transit datasets. We do not confirm the previously reported low obliquity. Our analysis favors a projected obliquity of − 6 6 − 12 + 14 ∘ , consistent with coplanar orbits. However, because the best-fit projected rotation velocity is higher than expected, and because the obliquity uncertainty grows substantially when the most discrepant of the five transit datasets is omitted, we regard the geometry of the HD 3167 system as still unsettled.

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BibTeX
@article{winn2026does,
  title = {{Does HD 3167 Have Planets with Perpendicular Orbits?}},
  author = {Joshua N. Winn and Jack Lubin and Gumundur Stefánsson and Haochuan Yu and Erik Petigura and Howard Isaacson and Andrew W. Howard and Fei Dai},
  journal = {The Astrophysical Journal Letters},
  year = {2026},
  month = oct,
  doi = {10.3847/2041-8213/aeab9d},
  url = {https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/aeab9d},
  note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
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DA  - 2026/10/13
JO  - The Astrophysical Journal Letters
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AB  - The two transiting planets of HD 3167 were reported to follow nearly perpendicular paths, with the inner orbit aligned with the stellar equator and the outer orbit nearly polar. This interpretation depends critically on a challenging single-transit detection of the Rossiter–McLaughlin effect of the inner planet. We observed three additional transits of the inner planet with the Keck Planet Finder and analyzed the new data together with two archival ESPRESSO transit datasets. We do not confirm the previously reported low obliquity. Our analysis favors a projected obliquity of − 6 6 − 12 + 14 ∘ , consistent with coplanar orbits. However, because the best-fit projected rotation velocity is higher than expected, and because the obliquity uncertainty grows substantially when the most discrepant of the five transit datasets is omitted, we regard the geometry of the HD 3167 system as still unsettled.
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