Plot of the flux between  − 230 and − 140 km s^-1 in the blue wing of the Lyman-α line as a function of time relative to the center of the planetary transit. Vertical dashed lines show the beginning and end of ingress and egress of the transit. The red triangular symbols are for the 2010 observations, while the blue square symbols correspond to observations of 2011. Horizontal error bars centered on the symbols show the duration of the exposures in each HST orbit. The time-tagged data allow independent sub-exposures to be extracted within each HST orbit (not shown here), resulting in the same transit signal within error bars. The light curve of the planet’s transit at optical wavelengths is displayed as a solid black line. The blue dashed line shows the calculated flux using the numerical simulation with an EUV ionizing flux 5 times the solar value, a stellar wind of protons with a temperature T ~ 10⁵ K, a velocity v ~ 190 km s^-1 and density n ~ 3 × 10³ cm^-3 together with an atmospheric escape rate of 10⁹ g s^-1.