Context. The measurement of obliquities – the angle between the orbital and stellar rotation – in star-planet systems is of great importance for understanding planet system formation and evolution. The bright and well-studied HAT-P-7 (Kepler-2) system is intriguing because several Rossiter-McLaughlin (RM) measurements found a high projected obliquity in this system, but it was not possible so far to determine whether the orbit is polar and/or retrograde.
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