Orbital Data and Parent Star Data for: WASP-5___ b

quantity unit value 1-sigma uncertainty
Period days 1.6284296 0.0000048
Time of periastron HJD 2454375.6246600 0.0002600
Orbital eccentricity none 0.000 0.000
Argument of perihelion deg 90.000 0.000
Velocity half-amplitude m s^-1 277.800 8.500
Planetary mass M_Jup 1.578 ---
Stellar mass M_Sun 0.97 ---
Stellar T_eff Kelvin 5883 ---
Planetary T_eff Kelvin 1630 ---
Stellar Radius R_Sun 1.030 ---
Measured Planetary Radius R_Jupiter 1.090 ---
T_circ (w/o core) Gyr 0.020 ---
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