Orbital Data and Parent Star Data for: GJ1214___ b

quantity unit value 1-sigma uncertainty
Period days 1.5803952 0.0000137
Time of periastron HJD 2454983.9087531 0.0000677
Orbital eccentricity none 0.000 0.000
Argument of perihelion deg 90.000 0.000
Velocity half-amplitude m s^-1 12.200 1.600
Planetary mass M_Earth 6.603 ---
Stellar mass M_Sun 0.16 ---
Stellar T_eff Kelvin 3026 ---
Planetary T_eff Kelvin 516 ---
Stellar Radius R_Sun 0.210 ---
Measured Planetary Radius R_Jupiter 0.240 ---
T_circ (w/o core) Gyr 0.584 ---
T_damp (w/o core) Gyr inf ---


Planet radii from theoretical models of:
Bodenheimer, Laughlin, and Lin 2003, Astrophysical Journal, v. 592, 555-563.

Damping timescales from:
Adams and Laughlin 2006, ApJ : link