Alan P. Boss

TL;DR: Theoretical models of disks undergoing the accretion of mass from an infalling cloud envelope predict disk temperatures in good agreement with these constraints: a moderately warm (500-1500 K) inner disk, surrounded by a cool (50-150 K) outer disk.

TL;DR: In this article, a high-contrast direct imaging survey for giant planets around 57 debris disk stars was conducted as part of the Gemini NICI Planet-Finding Campaign, which achieved median H-band contrasts of 12.4 mag at 0.5" and 14.1 mag at 1" separation.

TL;DR: In this paper, a high-contrast direct imaging survey for giant planets around 57 debris disk stars was conducted as part of the Gemini NICI Planet-Finding Campaign, which achieved median H-band contrasts of 12.4 and 14.1 magnitudes at 1'' separation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used the highest spatial resolution grid-based models to date (effectively over 8 × 106 grid points, with a locally refined radial grid and 1024 azimuthal grid points) to demonstrate that clump formation and survival are enhanced as the numerical resolution is increased, even with a full treatment of disk thermodynamics and radiative transfer.

TL;DR: In this article, a suite of three-dimensional radiative gravitational hydrodynamics models suggesting that binary stars may be quite capable of forming planetary systems similar to our own is presented.