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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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ASTROMETRY AND RADIAL VELOCITIES OF THE PLANET HOST M DWARF GJ 317: NEW TRIGONOMETRIC DISTANCE, METALLICITY, AND UPPER LIMIT TO THE MASS OF GJ 317b
Guillem Anglada-Escudé,Alan P. Boss,Alycia J. Weinberger,Ian B. Thompson,R. Paul Butler,Steven S. Vogt,Eugenio J. Rivera +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors obtained precision astrometry of the planet host M dwarf GJ?317 in the framework of the Carnegie Astrometric Planet Search project, which gave a distance determination of 15.3?pc.
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On the Formation of Gas Giant Planets on Wide Orbits
TL;DR: In this article, a suite of three-dimensional radiative, gravitational hydrodynamical models is used to show that gas giant planets are unlikely to form by the disk-instability mechanism at distances of ~100-200 AU from young stars.
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Simultaneous Triggered Collapse of the Presolar Dense Cloud Core and Injection of Short-Lived Radioisotopes by a Supernova Shock Wave
Alan P. Boss,Sergei I. Ipatov,Sandra A. Keiser,Elizabeth A. Myhill,Elizabeth A. Myhill,Harri A. T. Vanhala,Harri A. T. Vanhala +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that a 20 km s−1 shock wave can indeed trigger the collapse of a 1 M cloud while simultaneously injecting shock wave isotopes into the collapsing cloud, provided that cooling by molecular species such as H2O, CO2, and H2 is included.
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Giant Planet Formation, Evolution, and Internal Structure
Ravit Helled,Peter Bodenheimer,Morris Podolak,Aaron C. Boley,Farzana Meru,Sergei Nayakshin,Jonathan J. Fortney,Lucio Mayer,Yann Alibert,Alan P. Boss +9 more
TL;DR: In this article, the two main models for giant planet formation are core accretion and disk instability, including formation timescale, favorable formation location, ideal disk properties for planetary formation, early evolution, planetary composition, etc.
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A Critical Examination of the X-Wind Model for Chondrule and Calcium-rich, Aluminum-rich Inclusion Formation and Radionuclide Production
Steven J. Desch,Melissa A. Morris,Harold C. Connolly,Harold C. Connolly,Harold C. Connolly,Alan P. Boss +5 more
TL;DR: The X-wind model of Shu et al. as discussed by the authors has been used to explain the origin of chondrules, aluminum-rich inclusions (CAIs), and short-lived radionuclides (SLRs) in the solar nebula.