Significant mutual inclinations between the stellar spin and the orbits of both planets in the HAT-P-11 system

Abstract

Planet-star obliquity and planet-planet ]mutual inclination encode a planetary system's dynamical history, but both of their values are hard to measure for misaligned systems with close-in companions. HAT-P-11 is a K4 star with two known planets: a close-in, misaligned super-Neptune with a ≈5-day orbit, and an outer super-Jupiter with a ≈10-year orbit. In this work we present a joint orbit fit of the HAT-P-11 system with astrometry and S-index corrected RV data. By combining our results with previous constraints on the orientation of the star and the inner planet, we find that all three angular momenta -- those of the star, planet b, and planet c -- are significantly misaligned. We confirm the status of planet c as a super-Jupiter, with 2.680.41\, M Jup at a semimajor axis of 4.100.06\,AU, and planet b's mass of Mbib=0.0740.004\, M Jup. We present the posterior probability distribution of obliquity between star A and planet c, and mutual inclination between planet b and planet c.

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