Dave Nero

Ph.D. Dissertation

Radiative Cooling in Disks and its Effects on the Formation of Giant Planets via the Gravitational Instability

Refereed Publications

Perturbation Cooling in Disks, D. Nero & J. E. Bjorkman 2010

Did Fomalhaut, HR 8799, and HL Tauri form Planets via the Gravitational Instability? Placing Limits on the Required Disk Masses, D. Nero & J. E. Bjorkman 2009, ApJ, 702, L163 arXiv e-print