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Spin–Orbit Alignment of the β Pictoris Planetary System

Spin–Orbit Alignment of the β Pictoris Planetary System

A crucial diagnostic that can tell us about processes involved in the formation and dynamical evolutionof planetary systems is the angle between the rotation axis of a star and a planet's orbital angular momentum vector ("spin-orbit" alignment or "obliquity"). Here we present the first spin-orbit alignment measurement for a wide-separation …