Hot Jupiters (and beyond) – A report on what I did during AstroFit fellowship | I. Pillitteri ( INAF OAPA )

In this talk I want to report on my research activity during the past two years at INAF-OAPa, which has been focused on the study of systems with hot Jupiters. In particular, I will show how hot Jupiters can affect the activity of their host stars, in two examples: HD 189733 and WASP-18. I will briefly report on results from another couple of systems with planets in eccentric orbits. In addition, I will mention other results from the study of star forming regions and the search in X-rays of low mass companions to Cepheids.