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Refereed review:
From discs to planetesimals: evolution of gas and dust discs
Richard Alexander
Chapter in Circumstellar discs and planets at very high angular resolution, New Astronomy Reviews, vol 52, p60-77 (2008).
preprint (PDF); astro-ph; NASA ADS; summer school website.
Papers in refereed journals:
Radiation-hydrodynamic models of X-ray & EUV photoevaporating protoplanetary discs
J.E.Owen, B.Ercolano, C.J.Clarke & R.D.Alexander, MNRAS, in press.
astro-ph; NASA ADS.
Giant planet migration, disk evolution, and the origin of transitional disks
R.D.Alexander & P.J.Armitage, ApJ, vol 704, p989-1001 (2009).
preprint (PDF); astro-ph; NASA ADS.
Massive black hole binary mergers within sub-pc scale gas discs
J.Cuadra, P.J.Armitage, R.D.Alexander & M.C.Begelman, MNRAS, vol 393, p1423-1432 (2009).
astro-ph; NASA ADS.
[NeII] emission line profiles from photoevaporative disc winds
R.D.Alexander, MNRAS (Letters), vol 391, p L64-L68 (2008).
preprint (PDF); astro-ph; NASA ADS.
Binary formation and mass function variations in fragmenting discs with short cooling times
R.D.Alexander, P.J.Armitage & J.Cuadra, MNRAS, vol 389, p1655-1664 (2008).
preprint (PDF); astro-ph; NASA ADS.
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Stellar dynamical evidence against a cold disc origin for stars in the Galactic Centre
J.Cuadra, P.J.Armitage & R.D.Alexander, MNRAS (Letters), vol 388, p L64-L68 (2008).
astro-ph; NASA ADS.
Self-gravitating fragmentation of eccentric accretion disks
R.D.Alexander, P.J.Armitage, J.Cuadra & M.C.Begelman, ApJ, vol 674, p927-935 (2008).
preprint (PDF); astro-ph; NASA ADS.
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The Monitor project: JW 380 - a 0.26, 0.15 Mo pre-main-sequence eclipsing binary in the Orion Nebula Cluster
J.Irwin, S.Aigrain, S.Hodgkin, K.G.Stassun, L.Hebb, M.Irwin, E.Moraux, J.Bouvier, A.Alapini, R.Alexander, D.M.Bramich, J.Holtzmann, E.L.Martín, M.J.McCaughrean, F.Pont, P.E.Verrier & M.R.Zapatero Osorio, MNRAS, vol 380, p541-550 (2007).
astro-ph; NASA ADS.
Dust dynamics during protoplanetary disc clearing
R.D.Alexander & P.J.Armitage, MNRAS, vol 375, p500-512 (2007).
preprint (PDF); astro-ph; NASA ADS.
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Constraints on the Stellar Mass Function from Stellar Dynamics at the Galactic Center
R.D.Alexander, M.C.Begelman & P.J.Armitage, ApJ, vol 654, p907-914 (2007).
preprint (PDF); astro-ph; NASA ADS.
Photoevaporation of protoplanetary discs II: evolutionary models and observable properties
R.D.Alexander, C.J.Clarke & J.E.Pringle, MNRAS, vol 369, p229-239 (2006).
preprint (PDF); astro-ph; NASA ADS.
Photoevaporation of protoplanetary discs I: hydrodynamic models
R.D.Alexander, C.J.Clarke & J.E.Pringle, MNRAS, vol 369, p216-228 (2006).
preprint (PDF); astro-ph; NASA ADS.
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The Stellar Mass-Accretion Rate Relation in T Tauri Stars and Brown Dwarfs
R.D.Alexander & P.J.Armitage, ApJ (Letters), vol 639, p L83-L86 (2006).
preprint (PDF); astro-ph; NASA ADS.
Constraints on the ionizing flux emitted by T Tauri stars
R.D.Alexander, C.J.Clarke & J.E.Pringle, MNRAS, vol 358, p283-290 (2005).
preprint (PDF); astro-ph; NASA ADS.
The effects of X-ray photoionization and heating on the structure of circumstellar discs
R.D.Alexander, C.J.Clarke & J.E.Pringle, MNRAS, vol 354, p71-80 (2004).
preprint (PDF); astro-ph; NASA ADS.
On the origin of ionizing photons emitted by T Tauri stars
R.D.Alexander, C.J.Clarke & J.E.Pringle, MNRAS, vol 348, p879-884 (2004).
preprint (PDF); astro-ph; NASA ADS.
ISOCAM-CVF Spectroscopy of the Circumstellar Environment of Young Stellar Objects
R.D.Alexander, M.M.Casali, P.André, P.Persi & C.Eiroa, A&A, vol 401, p613-624 (2003).
preprint (PDF); astro-ph; NASA ADS.
The spectra in this paper are available on request by emailing me at the address below, or can be obtained as Highly Processed Data Products (HPDP) from the ISO data archive by clicking here.
PhD thesis:
Photoevaporation of circumstellar discs
University of Cambridge, September 2005
Supervisor: Dr. Cathie Clarke
Thesis available on request.
Conference proceedings:
Gas evolution in protoplanetary disks
P.Woitke, B.Dent, W.-F.Thi, B.Sibthorpe, W.K.M.Rice, J.Williams, A.Sicilia-Aguilar, J.Brown, I.Kamp, I.Pascucci, R.Alexander & A.Roberge, in Cool Stars 15, AIP conference series, vol 1094, p225-233 (2009).
astro-ph; NASA ADS; conference website.
Photoevaporation of circumstellar discs
R.D.Alexander, C.J.Clarke & J.E.Pringle, in Low-mass stars and brown dwarfs: IMF, accretion and activity, eds. L.Testi & A.Natta, Memorie della Societa Astronomica Italiana, vol 76, p354-357 (2005).
preprint (PDF); conference website; proceedings online; NASA ADS.
Photoionization of Circumstellar Discs
Richard Alexander, Cathie Clarke & Jim Pringle, in Young Local Universe, Proceedings of XXXIXth Rencontres de Moriond, eds. A.Chalabaev, T.Fukui, T.Montmerle, J.Tran-Thanh-Van, Editions Frontières, Paris (2005).
preprint (PDF); proceedings online.