The Age of the Universe from Nuclear Chronometers

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Jan 1998

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1998pnas...95...18t&link_type=abstract

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Volume 95, Issue 1, pp. 18-21

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An overview is presented of the current situation regarding radioactive dating of the matter of which our Galaxy is comprised. A firm lower bound on the age from nuclear chronometers of ≈ 9-10 Gyr is entirely consistent with age determinations from globular clusters and white dwarf cooling histories. The reasonable assumption of an approximately uniform nucleosynthesis rate yields an age for the Galaxy of 12.8 ± 3 Gyr, which again is consistent with current determinations from other methods.

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