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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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Collapse and Fragmentation of Molecular Cloud Cores. VI. Slowly Rotating Magnetic Clouds
TL;DR: In this paper, it was shown that a cloud initially in either solid-body or differential rotation can fragment into a binary protostar, provided that its ratio of rotational to gravitational energy (βi) exceeds about 0.01.
Formation of gas and ice giant planets
TL;DR: In this paper, two competing mechanisms for the formation of the gas giant planets, namely, bottom-up and top-down, are presented, and compared with the traditional core accretion mechanism and the disk instability mechanism.
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The Gemini NICI Planet-Finding Campaign
Michael C. Liu,Zahed Wahhaj,Beth Biller,Eric L. Nielsen,Mark Chun,Laird M. Close,Christ Ftaclas,Markus Hartung,Thomas L. Hayward,Fraser Clarke,I. Neill Reid,Evgenya L. Shkolnik,Matthias Tecza,Niranjan Thatte,Silvia H. P. Alencar,Pawel Artymowicz,Alan P. Boss,Adam Burrows,Elisabethe de Gouveia Dal Pino,Jane Gregorio-Hetem,Shigeru Ida,Marc J. Kuchner,Douglas N. C. Lin,Douglas W. Toomey +23 more
TL;DR: The Near-Infrared Coronagraphic Imager (NICI) as mentioned in this paper was designed from the outset for high-contrast imaging, comprising a high-performance curvature adaptive optics (AO) system with a simultaneous dual-channel coronagraphic imager.
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Formation of gas and ice giant planets
TL;DR: In this paper, two competing mechanisms for the formation of the gas giant planets, namely, bottom-up and top-down, are presented, and compared with the traditional core accretion mechanism and the disk instability mechanism.
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Injection mechanisms of short-lived radionuclides and their homogenization
TL;DR: The supernova injection model for the origin of the short-lived radionuclides (SLRs) in the early solar system is reviewed in this paper, where the mechanisms present in the disk to homogenize the freshly injected radions, and the timescales associated with these mechanisms, are described.