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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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Analytical Solutions for Radiative Transfer: Implications for Giant Planet Formation by Disk Instability
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present two new analytical solutions for radiative transfer in spherical coordinates, suitable for testing the code employed in all of the Boss disk instability calculations, which strongly support the disk instability mechanism for forming giant planets.
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Working Group on Extrasolar Planets: (Groupe De Travail Pour les Planetes Extra-Solaires)
Alan P. Boss,R. Paul Butler,William B. Hubbard,Philip A. Ianna,Martin Kürster,Jack J. Lissauer,Michel Mayor,Karen J. Meech,Francois Mignard,Alan J. Penny,Andreas Quirrenbach,Jill Tarter,Alfred Vidal-Madjar +12 more
TL;DR: The Working Group on Extrasolar Planets (hereafter the WGESP) was created with the following terms of reference, at the meeting of the IAU Executive Committee in June 1999.
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George W. Wetherill (1925-2006): physicist, geochemist, planetary scientist, astrobiologist
TL;DR: Wetherill as mentioned in this paper made seminal contributions to the fields of geochemical dating, meteoritical and asteroidal science, and the theory of the formation of terrestrial planets, evolving along the way into one of the first astrobiologists.
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Cloud Collapse and Fragmentation
TL;DR: In this article, computer codes capable of calculating the hydrodynamics of cloud collapse in three spatial dimensions have been used to study the fragmentation process, which is the preferred outcome of collapse.
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Observational Tests of Planet Formation Models
Alessandro Sozzetti,Guillermo Torres,David W. Latham,Bruce W. Carney,John B. Laird,Robert P. Stefanik,Alan P. Boss,David Charbonneau,Francis T. O'Donovan,Matthew J. Holman,J. N. Winn +10 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors summarize the results of two experiments to address important issues related to the correlation between planet frequencies and properties and the metallicity of the hosts, which can usefully inform formation, structural, and evolutionary models of gas giant planets.