Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1998-09-16
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
latex 7 pages, 4 postscript figures (included), uses nicV.sty (included). To appear in Proceedings of Nuclei in the Cosmos V
Scientific paper
Be abundances at low metallicities have major implications on cosmic ray origin, requiring acceleration out of fresh supernova ejecta. The observed, essentially constant Be/Fe fixes the Be production per SNII, allowing the determination of the energy supplied to cosmic rays per SNII. The results rule out acceleration out of the metal-poor ISM, and favor Be production at all epochs of Galactic evolution by cosmic rays having the same spectrum and source composition as those at the current epoch. Individual supernova acceleration of its own nucleosynthetic products and the collective acceleration by SN shocks of ejecta-enriched matter in the interiors of superbubbles have been proposed for such origin. A new Monte-Carlo based evolutionary code, into which the concept of Be and Fe production per supernova is explicitly built in, yields the supernova acceleration efficiency, 2% for the refractory metals and 12% for all the cosmic rays.
Kozlovsky Benzion
Lingenfelter Richard
Ramaty Reuven
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