X-Ray Emission From the Super-Earth Host Gj 1214

Stellar activity can produce large amounts of high-energy radiation, which is absorbed by the planetary atmosphere leading to irradiation-driven mass loss. We present the detection and an investigation of high-energy emission in a transiting super-Earth host system, GJ 1214, based on XMM-Newton observations. We derive an X-ray luminosity of L X = 7.4 × 10 25 erg s −1 and a corresponding activity level of log ( L X / L bol ) ∼ −5.3. Further, we determine a coronal temperature of about ∼3.5 MK, which is typical for coronal emission of moderately active low-mass stars. We estimate that GJ 1214 b evaporates at a rate of 1.3 × 10 10 g s −1 and has lost a total of ≈2–5.6 M ⊕ .