Alan Boss

Seeing another Earth: Detecting and Characterizing Rocky Planets with Extremely Large Telescopes (2009)

Hinz, Philip M., Kenyon, Scott, Meyer, Michael R., Boss, Alan, Angel, Roger

The detection of lower mass planets now being reported via radial velocity and microlensing surveys suggests that they may be ubiquitous. If missions such as Kepler are able to confirm this, the...

The Space Interferometry Mission: (2007)

Taking The Measure, P. Kenneth Seidelmann, Alan Boss, David Chernoff

This document, the Final Report of the SIMSWG, constitutes that advice

Gravitational instability in binary protoplanetary disks (2007)

Mayer, Lucio, Boss, Alan, Nelson, Andrew F.

We review the models and results of simulations of self-gravitating, gaseous protoplanetary disks in binary star systems. These models have been calculated by three different groups with three...

Molecular Line Emission from Gravitationally Unstable Protoplanetary Disks (2006)

Narayanan, Desika, Kulesa, Craig, Boss, Alan, Walker, Christopher K.

In the era of high resolution submillimeter interferometers, it will soon be possible to observe the neutral circumstellar medium directly involved in gas giant planet (GGP) formation at physical...

Gravitational Instabilities in Gaseous Protoplanetary Disks and Implications for Giant Planet Formation (2006)

Durisen, Richard, Boss, Alan, Mayer, Lucio, Nelson, Andy, Quinn, Thomas, Rice, Ken

Protoplanetary gas disks are likely to experience gravitational instabilites (GI's) during some phase of their evolution. Density perturbations in an unstable disk grow on a dynamic time scale into...