Results on the obliquity of exoplanet host stars -- the angle between the
stellar spin axis and the planetary orbital axis -- provide important
diagnostic information for theories describing planetary formation. Here we
present the first application of asteroseismology to the problem of stellar
obliquity determination in systems with transiting planets and Sun-like host
stars. We consider two systems observed by the NASA Kepler Mission which have
multiple transiting small (super-Earth sized) planets: the previously reported
Kepler-50 and a new system, Kepler-65, whose planets we validate in this paper.
Both stars show rich spectra of solar-like oscillations. From the asteroseismic
analysis we find that each host has its rotation axis nearly perpendicular to
the line of sight with the sines of the angles constrained at the 1-sigma level
to lie above 0.97 and 0.91, respectively. We use statistical arguments to show
that coplanar orbits are favoured in both systems, and that the orientations of
the planetary orbits and the stellar rotation axis are correlated.Comment: Accepted for publication in ApJ; 46 pages, 11 figure