The study of radioisotopes in presolar dust grains

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Oct 2006

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New Astronomy Reviews, Volume 50, Issue 7-8, p. 574-577.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Presolar grains in primitive meteorites are characterized by large isotopic anomalies in essentially all the analyzed elements. Among these anomalies are excesses in the daughter isotopes of short-lived radioisotopes. These excesses indicate the incorporation of short-lived now extinct isotopes into the grains at the time of their formation. So far laboratory studies of presolar grains have established evidence for the initial presence of the isotopes 49V, 22Na, 44Ti, 41Ca, 99Tc, and 26Al. Evidence for these isotopes have been found in presolar silicon carbide, graphite, and oxide grains from supernovae (49V, 22Na, 44Ti, 41Ca, and 26Al) and AGB stars (41Ca, 99Tc, and 26Al). We analyzed presolar hibonite (CaAl12O19) grains, whose oxygen isotopic ratios indicate an origin in AGB stars, for their Al Mg and Ca K isotopic systems, determined the initial 26Al/27Al and 41Ca/40Ca ratios, and compared them with theoretical models of the production of these isotopes in AGB stars. Whereas the abundance of 41Ca, which is produced by neutron capture, agrees with the models, the abundance of 26Al, which is produced by proton capture, greatly exceeds theoretical predictions. The production of this radioisotope requires a process in addition to H shell burning, cool bottom processing.

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