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Analytical Solutions for Radiative Transfer: Implications for Giant Planet Formation by Disk Instability
Alan P. Boss
The disk instability mechanism for giant planet formation is based on the formation of clumps in a marginally-gravitationally unstable protoplanetary disk, which must lose thermal…
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 +2
Cosmochemical evidence for the existence of short-lived radioisotopes (SLRI) such as Al and Fe at the time of the formation of primitive meteorites requires that thes…
Flux-Limited Diffusion Approximation Models of Giant Planet Formation by Disk Instability
Alan P. Boss
Both core accretion and disk instability appear to be required as formation mechanisms in order to explain the entire range of giant planets found in extrasolar planetary systems.…
Mixing in the Solar Nebula: Implications for Isotopic Heterogeneity and Large-Scale Transport of Refractory Grains
Alan P. Boss
The discovery of refractory grains amongst the particles collected from Comet 81P/Wild 2 by the Stardust spacecraft (Brownlee et al. 2006) provides the ground truth for large-scale…
Observational Tests of Planet Formation Models
A. Sozzetti, G. Torres, D. W. Latham +8
We 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. Our r…
An m sin i = 24 Earth Mass Planetary Companion To The Nearby M Dwarf GJ 176
Michael Endl, William D. Cochran, Robert A. Wittenmyer +1
We report the detection of a planetary companion with a minimum mass of m sin i = 0.0771 M_Jup = 24.5 M_Earth to the nearby (d = 9.4 pc) M2.5V star GJ 176. The star was observed as…