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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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Possible Rapid Gas Giant Planet Formation in the Solar Nebula and Other Protoplanetary Disks.

TL;DR: New three-dimensional, "locally isothermal," hydrodynamical models without velocity damping show that a disk instability can form Jupiter-mass clumps, implying that disk instability could obviate the core accretion mechanism in the solar nebula and elsewhere.

Masses, radii, and orbits of small kepler planets: the transition from gaseous to rocky planets

Geoffrey W. Marcy, +114 more
TL;DR: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NEASA) participated in the Kepler Participating Scientist Program (KSP) NNX12AC76G as discussed by the authors.
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Kepler-22b: a 2.4 Earth-radius Planet in the Habitable Zone of a Sun-like Star

William J. Borucki, +86 more
TL;DR: A search of the time-series photometry from NASA's Kepler spacecraft reveals a transiting planet candidate orbiting the 11th magnitude G5 dwarf KIC 10593626 with a period of 290 days as discussed by the authors.
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Kepler-62: a five-planet system with planets of 1.4 and 1.6 Earth radii in the habitable zone

William J. Borucki, +68 more
- 03 May 2013 - 
TL;DR: The Kepler mission detected a five-planet system where all the planets are smaller than twice the size of Earth and where the two outermost planets orbit in the habitable zone of their star, defined as the region where a rocky planet can host liquid water on its solid surface.