With the advent of the JWST era and the upcoming generation of space- and ground-based facilities, understanding the connection between planetary compositions and the properties of their native environments has become a central challenge in exoplanet research. This connection is shaped by the process of planet formation and is profoundly influenced by the thermophysical and chemical properties...
environments, which in turn are connected to those of the host stars. The majority of our understanding of this genetic link, however, is still implicitly built on the sole case study of the Solar System and the reconstructed characteristics of the Solar Nebula. Is this a reliable foundation? Both the mass and accretion rate of protoplanetary disks are known to be proportional to the stellar...
The determination of planet occurrence rates around stars in the iron-poor regime is a relatively underexplored area of investigation in the exoplanet field. Yet, measuring observationally the critical metallicity below which planet cannot form constitutes a crucial input to planet formation theories, and it is key for gauging the galactic epoch at which the formation of any planets started. I...
