Exoplanets in Italy: status and perspectives

26 Feb 2025, 09:00 → 28 Feb 2025, 16:30 Europe/Rome

Palazzo Corsini

Luigi Mancini

1st Meeting of the Italian scientific community working on extrasolar planets.

 

26-27-28 February 2025

Rome

 

 

The Italian scientific community studying extrasolar planets has experienced remarkable growth in recent years. This success stems from the extensive use of facilities like the TNG under the GAPS (Global Architecture of Planetary Systems) collaboration, active participation in groundbreaking space missions such as Gaia, CHEOPS, PLATO, and Ariel, and the scientific exploitation of cutting-edge instruments like SPHERE, ERIS, SHARK-NIR, SHARK-VIS, JWST, and ALMA. Moreover, close collaboration with instrumentation teams is paving the way for the development of next-generation facilities.

Despite these advancements, a comprehensive meeting uniting the entire Italian exoplanet community has been absent for many years. Now is the perfect moment to come together—to exchange ideas, strengthen collaborations, and build synergies across the diverse expertise within our community. This gathering will also be a unique opportunity to connect with young researchers working and training on exoplanetary science in Italy.

Above all, it will provide a platform to discuss the future of this dynamic field, addressing key topics such as scientific priorities, research organization and funding, technological and instrumental advancements, Italy’s role in the international context, and the role of universities in shaping researchers for this rapidly evolving discipline. Crucially, it will also explore interactions with related fields, including astrobiology, astrochemistry, star formation, and planetary science, to drive innovation and expand our horizons.

The 1st meeting of the Italian community involved in the exoplanetary science will be held in Rome on 26-28 February 2025 at the historic Palazzo Corsini, Accademia dei Lincei. 

 

Registrations and the call for abstracts are now open, with a deadline of January 9, 2024. Both in-person and remote attendance options are available. Participants are invited to submit abstracts for contributions. A maximum of two submissions are possible for each registered participant. The first one can be a contributed talk or a poster that will be displayed at the conference venue and could also be made available on the meeting web page as an e-poster.  The second one can only be an e-poster. In-person attendance is strongly encouraged for those presenting contributed talks.

There is no registration fee. A social dinner will be held on the evening of Thursday, February 27, 2025.

 

INVITED SPEAKERS: Serena Benatti (INAF-Palermo), Francesco Borsa (INAF-Milano), Valentina D'Orazi (Univ. Roma Tor Vergata), Gloria Guilluy (INAF-Torino), Nuccio Lanza (INAF-Catania), Alessandro Marconi (Univ. Firenze), Alessandro Morbidelli (Obs. de la Cote d'Azur, Nice), Valerio Nascimbeni (INAF-Padova), Matteo Pinamonti (INAF-Torino), Leonardo Testi (Univ. Bologna), Giovanna Tinetti (University College London), Diego Turrini (INAF-Torino)

 

SOC: Katia Biazzo (INAF-Roma), Aldo Stefano Bonomo (INAF-Torino), Matteo Brogi (Univ. Torino), Silvano Desidera (INAF-Padova), Davide Fedele (INAF-Arcetri), Giuseppe Lodato (Univ. Milano), Giusi Micela (INAF-Palermo), Isabella Pagano (INAF-Catania), Giampaolo Piotto (Univ. Padova), Roberto Ragazzoni (Univ. Padova), Alessandro Sozzetti (INAF-Torino) 

 

LOC: Simone Antoniucci (INAF-Roma),  Silvano Desidera (INAF-Padova, Chair), Claudia Di Maio (INAF-Palermo), Valentina D’Orazi (Univ. Roma Tor Vergata), Cecilia Lazzoni (INAF-Padova), Maria Vittoria Liberati (Accademia dei Lincei), Luigi Mancini (Univ. Roma Tor Vergata), Luca Naponiello (INAF-Torino), Daniela Sicilia (INAF-Catania)

 

 

 

 

Wednesday 26 February

09:00 → 09:50 Registration

09:50 → 10:00 Greetings, logistics, and introduction

10:00 → 11:30 Planet Formation and Observations of Infant Planets

Convener: Chair: Luigi Mancini

10:05 Protoplanetary Disks and the Dawn of Planets

Invited talk

Speaker: Leonardo Testi (Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Bologna)

10:30 Orbital architectures of Jupiter-mass exoplanets: the role of planet migration in protoplanetary discs

Speaker: Chiara E. Scardoni

10:45 Evidence of disc instability in the planet forming disc of AB Aur

Speaker: Giuseppe Lodato (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

11:00 Direct imaging of accreting protoplanets with LBT/SHARK-VIS

Speaker: Simone Antoniucci (INAF - OAR)

11:15 Planet formation with ERIS - report of the INAF ERIS GTO program

Speaker: Davide Fedele (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

11:30 → 11:50 Coffe break

11:50 → 13:00 Planet Formation and Observations of Infant Planets

Convener: Chair: Luigi Mancini

11:50 Planet formation from the Solar System to Exoplanetary System

Invited talk

Speaker: Alessandro Morbidelli

12:15 Multiple planets perturbations on the dust in a circumstellar disk

Speaker: Francesco Marzari

12:30 Unlocking the Potential of High-Resolution Spectroscopy for Protoplanet Research: Insights from synthetic observations

Speaker: Jiacheng Peng

12:45 Rethinking the proto-planetary disc turbulent paradigm

Speaker: Giovanni Rosotti

13:00 → 14:30 Lunch

14:30 → 16:20 Demographics and Architectures of Planetary Systems

Convener: Chair: Domenico Nardiello

14:30 Navigating the Outer Planetary Systems: SHARK-NIR's Contributions to Understanding Planet Formation and Evolution

Invited talk

Speaker: Valentina D'Orazi (University of Rome Tor Vergata / INAF OAPd)

14:55 Satellites around exoplanets and brown dwarfs

Speaker: Cecilia Lazzoni

15:10 Unveiling Planetary System Architectures: Low-Mass Planets Around Sun-like Stars and M Dwarfs

Invited talk

Speaker: Matteo Pinamonti (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

15:35 Validating Gaia astrometric candidates: a deep dive with HARPS-N

Speaker: Domenico Barbato (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

15:50 Detection and characterization of planetary mass objects using a multi-technique approach

Speaker: Dino Mesa (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

16:05 Unveiling the history of the warm Jupiters

Speakers: Ilaria Carleo, Giacomo Mantovan

16:20 → 16:50 Coffe break

16:50 → 18:30 Demographics and Architectures of Planetary Systems

Convener: Chair: Mario Damasso

16:50 Young planetary systems

Invited talk

Speaker: Serena Benatti

17:15 Towards the characterisation of Earth analogues: news from the HARPS-N Collaboration

Speaker: Luca Malavolta (Università degli Studi di Padova)

17:30 HONEI: the HOt-NEptune Initiative

Speaker: Luca Naponiello (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

17:45 The OMEGA Key Project search for microlensing exoplanets

Speaker: Paolo Rota

18:00 Transit Timing Variation analysis in the TESS and CHEOPS era: towards Ariel and PLATO

Speaker: Luca Borsato

18:15 An excess of stellar companions in stars with hot Jupiters

Speaker: Davide Gandolfi

Thursday 27 February

09:00 → 10:25 The Star-Environment-Planet connection

Convener: Chair: Gaetano Scandariato

09:00 Genetic links between stars, their circumstellar disks and their planets

Invited talk

Speaker: Diego Turrini (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

Turrini-Planet_Formation.ppt

09:25 Asteroseismic Constraints on Exoplanet Host Stars: Insights from Current Efforts and Preparatory Work for PLATO

Speaker: Andrea Miglio (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

09:40 The exoplanet population in the Galactic context from the Ariel sample

Speaker: Maria Tsantaki (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

09:55 Non solar-like stars as a probe for planet formation

Speaker: Jesus Maldonado

10:10 White dwarfs, dust, disks and debris: exo-rocks compositions and the end of planetary systems

Speaker: Nicola Gentile Fusillo

10:25 → 10:55 Coffe break

10:55 → 12:20 The Star-Environment-Planet connection

Convener: Chair: Claudia Di Maio

10:55 Star-Planet Interaction

Invited talk

Speaker: Antonino Francesco Lanza (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

11:20 Close-in non-transiting planets as a key to improving our understanding of star-planet interactions

Speaker: Sylvain Breton (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

11:35 Star-Planet Interactions (SPI): Is planetary inward migration responsible for GJ 504's fast rotation and bright X-ray luminosity? New constraints from eROSITA

Speaker: Camilla Pezzotti (University of Liège)

11:50 Parametric study of star-planet interaction in case of HD209458b

Speaker: Stavro Ivanovski

12:05 Can Planetary Wind Form a Circumstellar Disk? Insights from the WASP-12 Hot Jupiter System

Speaker: Salvatore Colombo (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

12:20 → 13:00 Atmospheric Characterization of Exoplanets

Convener: Chair: Riccardo Spinelli

12:20 Evaporation of close-in planets

Invited talk

Speaker: Gloria Guilluy (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

12:45 How long a planetary atmosphere could resist to the action of stellar wind?

Speaker: Maria Pia Di Mauro

13:00 → 14:30 Lunch

14:30 → 16:10 Atmospheric Characterization of Exoplanets

Convener: Chair: Monica Rainer

14:30 Planetary Atmospheres from Low and High Dispersion Spectroscopy

Invited talk

Speaker: Francesco Borsa (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

14:55 Retrieving the Atmospheres of Distant Worlds: Insights from High-Resolution Spectroscopy

Speaker: Paolo Giacobbe

15:10 High dispersion optical phase curves of ultra-hot Jupiters with SHINE ON

Speaker: Lorenzo Pino (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

15:25 Single line analysis: a powerful tool to probe exoplanetary atmospheres

Speaker: Mattia Claudio D'Arpa (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

15:40 Atmospheric characterization of Exoplanets with CHEOPS

Speaker: Vikash Singh (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

15:55 Modelling Exoplanetary Atmospheres undergoing Atmospheric Escape Mechanisms

Speaker: Federico Biassoni

16:10 → 16:40 Coffe break

16:40 → 17:25 Atmospheric Characterization of Exoplanets

Convener: Chair: Riccardo Spinelli

16:40 Exo-climates and habitability of rocky planets: modelling tools and systematic studies for future instruments

Speaker: Laura Silva

16:55 Constraining exoplanetary clouds with Jupiter Observations: Insights from Juno & JWST

Speaker: Francesco Biagiotti

17:10 ASTERIA: Adaptability of cyanobacteria from extreme environments to stellar UV radiation

Speaker: Daniela Billi

17:25 → 18:30 Outreach, education and training

Convener: Chair: Giuseppe Lodato

17:25 Engaging the public with exoplanets: the INAF perspective

Speaker: Claudia Mignone (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

17:40 Round table on the Perspectives for the training of young researchers in exoplanetary sciences

Friday 28 February

09:00 → 10:45 Future Instruments and Technologies for Exoplanet Science

Convener: Chair: Anna Brucalassi

09:00 PLATO: an ESA mission to discover transiting habitable Earths around solar-type stars

Invited talk

Speaker: Valerio Nascimbeni (INAF-OAPD)

09:25 Ariel

Invited talk

Speaker: Giovanna Tinetti

09:50 The Roman Galactic Exoplanet Survey: demographics beyond the snow line with microlensing

Speaker: Valerio Bozza (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

10:05 A look to the future: the HWO mission

Speaker: Adriano Fontana (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

10:20 HWO and LIFE: future space telescopes to look for life in the universe

Invited talk

Speaker: Eleonora Alei

10:45 → 11:15 Coffe break

11:15 → 12:55 Future Instruments and Technologies for Exoplanet Science

Convener: Chair: Valentina Granata

11:15 Pushing the Limits of space-based Astrometry: Technological Advances and Technical challenges

Speaker: Deborah Busonero (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

space-based Astrometry challenges-Busonero.pdf

11:30 ANDES the High-Resolution Spectrograph for the ELT - Overview, Future Developments, and Science Objectives

Invited talk

Speakers: Alessandro Marconi (Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Firenze), Paolo Di Marcantonio (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

11:55 Improving the SPHERE's Extreme Adaptive Optics correction with SAXO+

Speaker: Laura Schreiber (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

12:10 The Planetary Camera and Spectrograph (PCS) for the ELT

Speaker: Raffaele Gratton

12:25 The Sardinia Radio Telescope in the Breakthrough Listen Program and synergies with the science of exoplanets

Speaker: Andrea Melis (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

12:40 The role of the TNG in the exoplanetary science of the next future

Speaker: Adriano Ghedina (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

12:55 → 14:30 Lunch

14:30 → 16:30 Perspectives for Exoplanets Science in Italy

Convener: Chair: Aldo Bonomo

14:30 GAPS

Speaker: Giusi Micela

14:45 Meet the JEDI collaboration - JEts and Disk @ INAF

Speaker: Francesca Bacciotti

15:00 Round-table on the Perspectives for Exoplanets Science in Italy