Eve J Lee

Date

2 April 2025

Host

Caroline Dorn

Title

Small Planet Formation

Abstract

Our Galaxy is teeming with small planets of sizes up to that of Neptune within orbital periods of ~100 days. These sub-Neptunes have no solar-system analog, raising questions on how such planets form, why they are so common, and why they do not exist in our own solar system. I will outline some of the puzzling demographic patterns that have emerged in the observations of these small planets and discuss how such patterns may be explained using first-principle physics and astrophysics that govern the interaction between the star, the disk, and the planet.

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