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Alan P. Boss
Researcher at Carnegie Institution for Science
Publications - 431
Citations - 40212
Alan P. Boss is an academic researcher from Carnegie Institution for Science. The author has contributed to research in topics: Planet & Formation and evolution of the Solar System. The author has an hindex of 78, co-authored 426 publications receiving 38471 citations. Previous affiliations of Alan P. Boss include Ames Research Center & NASA Headquarters.
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The Gemini NICI Planet-Finding Campaign: The Frequency of Giant Planets around Young B and A Stars
Eric L. Nielsen,Michael C. Liu,Zahed Wahhaj,Beth Biller,Thomas L. Hayward,Laird M. Close,Jared R. Males,Andrew J. Skemer,Mark Chun,Christ Ftaclas,Silvia H. P. Alencar,Pawel Artymowicz,Alan P. Boss,Fraser Clarke,Elisabete M. de Gouveia Dal Pino,Jane Gregorio-Hetem,Markus Hartung,Shigeru Ida,Marc J. Kuchner,Douglas N. C. Lin,I. Neill Reid,Evgenya L. Shkolnik,Matthias Tecza,Niranjan Thatte,Douglas W. Toomey +24 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors carried out high contrast imaging of 70 young, nearby B and A stars to search for brown dwarf and planetary companions as part of the Gemini NICI Planet-Finding Campaign.
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Convective Cooling of Protoplanetary Disks and Rapid Giant Planet Formation
TL;DR: In this article, the vertical convective energy fluxes in the first three-dimensional radiative hydrodynamics model of clump formation by disk instability were analyzed in detail.
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Chondrule-forming shock fronts in the solar nebula: A possible unified scenario for planet and chondrite formation
Alan P. Boss,Richard H. Durisen +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, it was shown that the instability in a gaseous disk capable of forming Jupiter must have been marginally gravitationally unstable at and beyond Jupiter's orbit, and that this instability can drive inward spiral shock fronts with shock speeds of up to ~10 km s-1 at asteroidal orbits.
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The Early Evolution of the Inner Solar System: A Meteoritic Perspective
TL;DR: The terrestrial planets took ∼100 million years to form, and their final assembly was not completed until after the solar nebula had dispersed, implying that water-bearing asteroids and/or icy planetesimals that formed near Jupiter are the likely sources of Earth's water.