PREDNASAJUCI / LECTURER :

Dmytro Orikhovskyi

(1) Astronomical Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences,
059 60 Tatranská Lomnica

NAZOV / TITLE :

Search for precessing hot Jupiters on misaligned orbits

ABSTRAKT / ABSTRACT :

Orbits of exoplanets around hot main-sequence A-F stars are often found to be misaligned to their host-star
spin axis. Only three planets in such systems are, however, known to show orbital precession. Namely,
WASP-33b, Kepler-13Ab and KELT-9b. For other similar systems, the precession is difficult to confirm due to
the absence of precise measurements of the stellar obliquity, insufficient number of misalignment
measurements, and very long precession periods. We aim to observe a promising group of transiting fast
rotators where the precession period is expected to be short so the projected misalignment would
significantly change since the last observation.