Orbital Data and Parent Star Data for: WASP-2___ b

quantity unit value 1-sigma uncertainty
Period days 2.1522260 0.0000040
Time of periastron HJD 2454008.7320500 0.0002800
Orbital eccentricity none 0.000 0.000
Argument of perihelion deg 90.000 0.000
Velocity half-amplitude m s^-1 155.000 7.000
Planetary mass M_Jup 0.842 ---
Stellar mass M_Sun 0.79 ---
Stellar T_eff Kelvin 5200 ---
Planetary T_eff Kelvin 1182 ---
Stellar Radius R_Sun 0.780 ---
Measured Planetary Radius R_Jupiter 1.038 ---
T_circ (w/o core) Gyr 0.036 ---
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