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

Konstantin Batygin ()
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Nature, 2012, vol. 491, issue 7424, 418-420

Abstract: 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.

Date: 2012
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