Periodic Reporting for period 1 - SPICE DUNE (A SpectroPhotometric Inquiry of Close-in Exoplanets around the Desert to Understand their Nature and Evolution)

The goal of SPICE DUNE is to determine the origin of the hot Neptune desert, a deficit of Neptune-size planets on very short orbits. This mysterious feature contains the imprint of processes that shaped the population of exoplanets orbiting close to their star - and further...