48Ca Heterogeneity in Differentiated Meteorites

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Dec 2011

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The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 743, Issue 1, article id. L23 (2011).

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

Meteorites, Meteors, Meteoroids, Nuclear Reactions, Nucleosynthesis, Abundances

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Isotopic heterogeneities of 48Ca have been found in numerous bulk meteorites that are correlated with 50Ti and 54Cr anomalies among differentiated planetary bodies, and the results suggest that a rare subset of neutron-rich Type Ia supernova (nSN Ia) was responsible for contributing these neutron-rich iron-group isotopes into the solar system (SS). The heterogeneity of these isotopes found in differentiated meteorites indicates that the isotopic compositions of the bulk SS are not uniform, and there are significant amounts of nSNe Ia dust incompletely mixed with the rest of SS materials during planetary formation. Combined with the data of now-extinct short-lived nuclide 60Fe, which can be produced more efficiently from an nSN Ia than a Type II supernova ejecta, the observed planetary-scale isotopic heterogeneity probably reflects a late input of stellar dust grains with neutron-rich nuclear statistical equilibrium nuclides into the early SS.

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