Orbital Data and Parent Star Data for: HD162020_ b

quantity unit value 1-sigma uncertainty
Period days 8.4281980 0.0000560
Time of periastron HJD 2451990.6670000 0.0050000
Orbital eccentricity none 0.277 0.002
Argument of perihelion deg 28.400 0.230
Velocity half-amplitude m s^-1 1813.000 4.000
M*sin(i) M_Jup 14.578 ---
Stellar mass M_Sun 0.75 ---
Stellar T_eff Kelvin 4830 ---
Planetary T_eff Kelvin 694 ---
Stellar Radius R_Sun 0.750 ---
Predicted Planetary Radius (w/o core) R_Jupiter 1.110 ---
T_circ (w/o core) Gyr 0.833 ---
T_damp (w/o core) Gyr 5.012 ---


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