Ken Rice

Welcome to my webpage at the University of California, Riverside, where I am an Assistant Professor of Astrophysics in the Department of Physics and the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics. My research interest is primarily the evolution of accretion discs and how this relates to aspects of star and planet formation. I am particularly interested in accretion discs that are massive enough for self-gravity to play a role in their evolution.

RECENT PAPERS RESEARCH INTERESTS
  • Rice, W.K.M., G. Lodato, & P.J. Armitage, Investigating
        fragmentation conditions in self-gravitating
        accretion discs, MNRAS, in press, 2005.
  • Rice, W.K.M., & P.J. Armitage, Quantifying orbital
         migration from exoplanet statistics and host
        metallicities, ApJ, 630, 1107, 2005
  • Lodato, G., & W.K.M. Rice,Testing the locality of
         transport in self-gravitating accretion discs - II. The
         massive disc case, MNRAS, 358, 1489, 2005
  • Rice, W.K.M., G. Lodato, J.E. Pringle, P.J. Armitage, & I.A.
         Bonnell, Accelerated planetesimal growth in
         self-gravitating protoplanetary discs, MNRAS, 355, 543,
         2004
  • Lodato, G., & W.K.M. Rice, The locality of transport in
         self-gravitating accretion discs, MNRAS, 351, 630, 2004
  • Rice, W.K.M., & P.J. Armitage, On the formation time
         scale and core masses of gas giant planets, ApJL, 598, L55,
         2003
  • Rice, W.K.M., P.J. Armitage, I.A. Bonnell, M.R. Bate,
         S.V. Jeffers, and S.G. Vine, Substellar companions and
         isolated planetary mass objects from protostellar disc
         fragmentation, MNRAS, 346, L36, 2003
  • Rice, W.K.M., K. Wood, P.J. Armitage, B.A. Whitney, &
         J.E. Bjorkmann, Constraints on a planetary origin for the
         gap in the protoplanetary disc of GM Aurigae, MNRAS,
         342, 79, 2003
  • Rice, W.K.M., P.J. Armitage, M.R. Bate, & I.A. Bonnell,
         The effect of cooling on the global stability of
         self-gravitating protoplanetary discs, MNRAS, 339, 1025,
         2003
    		• Protoplanetary accretion discs
  • Numerical modelling of self-gravitating accretion discs.
    • Planet formation through disc fragmentation.
    • Angular momentum transport.
    • Dust grains in self-gravitating discs.
  • Signatures of planets in discs.
  • The formation of gas giants through core accretion.

    Particle acceleration at astrophysical shocks

  • The injection of particles into the acceleration process.
  • Particle acceleration at CME driven shocks.
  • Anomalous cosmic rays.

    HiRes Disk Image

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    		Animations from some of my disc simulations.
    CONTACT DETAILS TEACHING
    Ken Rice
    Insitute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics
    University of California
    Riverside
    CA, 92521
    USA

    Tel : 951-8277190
    Fax : 951-8274509
    Email : ken.rice(at)ucr.edu
         		Astrophysics Journal Club (Fall 2005)