The rotation of a star and the revolutions of its planets are not necessarily aligned. This
article reviews the measurement techniques, key findings, and theoretical interpretations …

The Rossiter-McLaughlin effect occurs during a planet's transit. It provides the main means
of measuring the sky-projected spin-orbit angle between a planet's orbital plane, and its host …

We show that stars with transiting planets for which the stellar obliquity is large are
preferentially hot (T eff> 6250 K). This could explain why small obliquities were observed in …

We study tidal dissipation in stars with masses in the range 0.1–1.6 M⊙ throughout their
evolution, including turbulent effective viscosity acting on equilibrium tides and inertial …

Context. Several competing scenarios for planetary-system formation and evolution seek to
explain how hot Jupiters came to be so close to their parent stars. Most planetary …

Most of our knowledge of extrasolar planets rests on precise radial-velocity measurements,
either for direct detection or for confirmation of the planetary origin of photometric transit …

We present the consistent evolution of short-period exoplanets coupling the tidal and
gravothermal evolution of the planet. Contrarily to previous similar studies, our calculations …

Warm Jupiters lay out an excellent laboratory for testing models of planet formation and
migration. Their separation from the host star makes tidal reprocessing of their orbits …

Doppler and transit observations of exoplanets show a pile-up of Jupiter-size planets in
orbits with a 3 day period. A fraction of these hot Jupiters have retrograde orbits with respect …

We present twenty-three transit light curves and seven occultation light curves for the ultra-
short period planet WASP-43 b, in addition to eight new measurements of the radial velocity …