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This conference talk by Arturo Cevallos Soto from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas explores the formation and characteristics of young planets orbiting young accreting stars. Recorded during the "Planets on the Edge" conference at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) at UC Santa Barbara in May 2025, the 19-minute presentation contributes to broader discussions about exoplanet demographics and formation. Learn about how discoveries from missions like Kepler and TESS have revealed thousands of short-period planets around other stars, many Earth-sized and rocky, with no direct Solar System equivalents. The talk addresses key questions about the nature of close-in rocky planets, their formation mechanisms, governing parameters across different star systems, and why similar planets don't exist around our Sun. Part of a conference bringing together experts in exoplanet research, protoplanetary disks, and meteoritics to synthesize current knowledge and advance observational and theoretical understanding of planet formation and evolution.
