Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Aug 1983
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1983natur.304..515n&link_type=abstract
Nature (ISSN 0028-0836), vol. 304, Aug. 11, 1983, p. 515-517. Research supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, NSF, and NASA
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
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Abundance, Cosmology, Hafnium Isotopes, Solar System, Interstellar Chemistry, Nuclear Fusion
Scientific paper
It is now widely believed that Al-26 (half-life, 7.2 x 10 to the 5th yr) and Pd-107 (half-life, 6.5 x 10 to the 6th yr) were present in the early solar system. The nucleosynthetic event responsible for the production of these nuclei must therefore have occurred no more than a few million years before the formation of solid bodies. It is possible that this event also gave a rise to the I-129 believed to be present in the early solar system. The last event to contribute Pu-244 to the solar system, however, occurred approximately 10 to the 8th yr before the time of solidification. It is noted that this latter time scale is also consistent with the lack of evidence for a Cm-247 chronometer. It is proposed that Hf-182 (half-life, 9 x 10 to the 6th yr) can resolve the question whether heavy-element nonactinide nucleosynthesis occurred during the (Al-26)-producing event. It is believed that an answer to this question will help to clarify the chronology of the formation of the solar system and will help to determine the astrophysical sites of heavy-element nucleosynthesis.
Norman Eric B.
Schramm David N.
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