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1.
The measured D/H ratios in interstellar environments and in the solar system are reviewed. The two extreme D/H ratios in solar
system water - (720±120)×10−6 in clay minerals and (88±11)×10−6 in chondrules, both from LL3 chondritic meteorites - are interpreted as the result of a progressive isotopic exchange in
the solar nebula between deuterium-rich interstellar water and protosolar H2. According to a turbulent model describing the evolution of the nebula (Drouart et al., 1999), water in the solar system cannot be a product of thermal (neutral) reactions occurring in the solar nebula. Taking
720×10−6 as a face value for the isotopic composition of the interstellar water that predates the formation of the solar nebula, numerical
simulations show that the water D/H ratio decreases via an isotopic exchange with H2. During the course of this process, a D/H gradient was established in the nebula. This gradient was smoothed with time and
the isotopic homogenization of the solar nebula was completed in 106 years, reaching a D/H ratio of 88×10−6. In this model, cometary water should have also suffered a partial isotopic re-equilibration with H2. The isotopic heterogeneity observed in chondrites result from the turbulent mixing of grains, condensed at different epochs
and locations in the solar nebula. Recent isotopic determinations of water ice in cold interstellar clouds are in agreement
with these chondritic data and their interpretation (Texeira et al., 1999).
This revised version was published online in June 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
2.
The formation of planetary systems is intimately tied to the question of the evolution of the gas and solid material in the
early nebula. Current models of evolution of circumstellar disks are reviewed here with emphasis on the so-called “alpha models”
in which angular momentum is transported outward by turbulent viscosity, parameterized by an dimensionless parameter α. A
simple 1D model of protoplanetary disks that includes gas and embedded particles is used to introduce key questions on planetesimal
formation. This model includes the aerodynamic properties of solid ice and rock grains to calculate their migration and growth.
We show that the evolution of the nebula and migration and growth of its solids proceed on timescales that are generally not
much longer than the timescale necessary to fully form the star-disk system from the molecular cloud. Contrary to a widely
used approach, planet formation therefore can neither be studied in a static nebula nor in a nebula evolving from an arbitrary initial condition. We propose a simple approach to both account for sedimentation
from the molecular cloud onto the disk, disk evolution and migration of solids.
Giant planets have key roles in the history of the forming Solar System: they formed relatively early, when a significant
amount of hydrogen and helium were still present in the nebula, and have a mass that is a sizable fraction of the disk mass
at any given time. Their composition is also of interest because when compared to the solar composition, their enrichment
in elements other than hydrogen and helium is a witness of sorting processes that occured in the protosolar nebula. We review
likely scenarios capable of explaining both the presence of central dense cores in Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune and
their global composition.
This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
3.
John A. Wood 《Space Science Reviews》2000,92(1-2):97-112
Radiometric dating shows that the earliest steps in forming the substance of meteorites and assembling it into planetesimals
occurred in a very short interval of time, 1–2 Ma. This study shows that rapid formation is also dictated by the need to use
short-lived 26Al (half-life T
1/2=0.74 Ma) as a heat source to metamorphose and in some cases melt the meteorite parent bodies after they accreted. The earliest
events in solar system history dated by cosmochemists, formation at high temperatures of the Ca,Al-rich inclusions that occur
in chondritic meteorites, probably occurred during the most energetic stage of protosolar disk evolution, as the protosun
neared its present mass and infall drew to a close.
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4.
It is well established that the prolonged and thorough mixing of numerous nucleosynthetic components that constitutes the
matter in the solar nebula resulted in an essential isotopic homogeneity of the solar system material. This may or may not
be true for the short-lived radionuclides which were injected into or formed within the solar nebula just prior to or during
solar system formation. Distinguishing between their heterogeneous or homogeneous distribution is important because the short-
lived radionuclides are now widely used for the relative chronology of various objects and processes in the early solar system
and as constraints for models of nucleosynthesis. The recent studies of the 53Mn-53Cr isotope system (half life of 53Mn is 3.7 Ma) in various solar system objects have shown that the relative abundance of radiogenic 53Cr is consistent with essentially homogeneous distribution of 53Mn in the asteroid belt. Thus, the relative 53Mn-53Cr chronometer can be directly used for dating samples which originated in the asteroid belt. Importantly, however, all meteorite
groups studied so far indicate a clear excess of 53Cr as compared to Earth and to a lunar sample, which exhibits also a terrestrial 53Cr/52Cr ratio. The results from the Martian (SNC) meteorites show that their 53Cr excesses are less than half of those found in the asteroid belt bodies. Thus, the characteristic 53Cr/52Cr ratio of Mars is intermediate between that of the Earth-Moon system and those of the other meteorites. If these 53Cr variations are viewed as a function of the heliocentric distance, the radial dependence of the relative abundances of radiogenic
53Cr is indicated. This observed gradient can be explained by either an early, volatility controlled, Mn/Cr fractionation within
the nebula or by an initial radial heterogeneous distribution of 53Mn. Although model calculations of the Mn/Cr ratios in the bulk terrestrial planets seem to be inconsistent with the volatility
driven scenario, the precision of these calculations is inadequate for eliminating this possibility. In contrast, recent studies
of the 53Mn-53Cr system in the enstatite chondrites indicate that, while their bulk Mn/Cr ratios are essentially the same as in ordinary
chondrites, the 53Cr excess in bulk enstatite chondrites is three times lower than that in the bulk ordinary chondrites. This difference cannot
be explained by a Mn/Cr fractionation and, thus, strongly suggests that a radial heterogeneous distribution of 53Mn must have existed in at least the early inner solar system. Using the observed gradient and the 53Cr/52Cr ratio of the bulk enstatite chondrites, their parent body(ies) formed at ∼1.4 AU or somewhat closer to the Sun.
This revised version was published online in June 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
5.
The Sun is the largest reservoir of matter in the solar system, which formed 4.6 Gyr ago from the protosolar nebula. Data
from space missions and theoretical models indicate that the solar wind carries a nearly unfractionated sample of heavy isotopes
at energies of about 1 keV/amu from the Sun into interplanetary space. In anticipation of results from the Genesis mission’s
solar-wind implanted samples, we revisit solar wind isotopic abundance data from the high-resolution CELIAS/MTOF spectrometer
on board SOHO. In particular, we evaluate the isotopic abundance ratios 15N/14N, 17O/16O, and 18O/16O in the solar wind, which are reference values for isotopic fractionation processes during the formation of terrestrial planets
as well as for the Galactic chemical evolution. We also give isotopic abundance ratios for He, Ne, Ar, Mg, Si, Ca, and Fe
measured in situ in the solar wind. 相似文献
6.
Two fractionation models are applied to the problem of generating the widely distributed “Q-component” noble gases in meteorites
from the solar-like isotopic and elemental compositions that presumably characterized the early solar accretion disk. Noble
gas fractionation by mass-dependent dissipation of the solar nebula, as suggested by Ozima et al. (1998), is examined in the context of a model developed by Johnstone et al. (1998) for accretion disk photoevaporation driven by intense UV radiation from a neighboring giant star. Hydrodynamic escape
of heavier species entrained in hydrogen outflow from the UV-heated outer regions of the disk can generate substantial noble
gas fractionations, but they do not match the observed Q-component isotopic pattern and moreover require the physically unrealistic
assumption that the fractionated gases are confined to the heated disk boundary zone, without mixing with the interior nebula,
for long periods of time. It seems more likely that hydrodynamic outflow is actually established below this zone, in the body
of the disk. In this case fractionations are governed by Rayleigh distillation of the entire remaining nebula, and are negligible
at the time when disk erosion is halted by the gravitational potential of the young sun embedded in the disk.
A “local” model of noble gas fractionation by hydrodynamic blowoff of transient, methane-rich atmospheres outgassed from the
interiors of large primitive planetesimals (Pepin, 1991) is updated and assessed against current data. Degassed atmospheres
are assumed to contain isotopically solar noble gases except for an additional nucleogenic Xe component that contributes primarily
to the two heaviest isotopes; there is evidence that this same component is present at varying levels in other solar-system
volatile reservoirs, possibly reflecting a compositional change with time in the solar nebula. Single fixed values for the
two free parameters in the blowoff modeling equations can generate fractionated Xe, Kr, Ar and Ne compositions in the residual
atmosphere that closely match observed meteoritic isotopic distributions, and Q-gas elemental ratios are approximated by adsorption
of fractionated gases on planetesimal surface grains using plausible values of relative Henry Law constants. Additional requirements
for adsorption of sufficient absolute amounts of Q-gases on carrier grains, and their subsequent ejection to space, mixing
in the nebula, and dispersal into meteorite bodies, are examined in the context of current models for body sizes and dynamical
evolution in an early mass-rich asteroid belt (Chambers and Wetherill, 2001). Despite its ability to replicate isotopic compositions,
uncertainties about the environments in which the blowoff model can successfully operate suggest that there is, as yet, no
entirely satisfactory understanding of how the Q-component noble gases might have evolved from solar-like precursor compositions.
This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
7.
R. Karrer P. Bochsler C. Giammanco F. M. Ipavich J. A. Paquette P. Wurz 《Space Science Reviews》2007,130(1-4):317-321
Using the Mass Time-of-Flight Spectrometer (MTOF)—part of the Charge, Elements, Isotope Analysis System (CELIAS)—onboard the
Solar Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft, we derive the nickel isotopic composition for the isotopes with mass 58,
60 and 62 in the solar wind. In addition we measure the elemental abundance ratio of nickel to iron. We use data accumulated
during ten years of SOHO operation to get sufficiently high counting statistics and compare periods of different solar wind
velocities. We compare our values with the meteoritic ratios, which are believed to be a reliable reference for the solar
system and also for the solar outer convective zone, since neither element is volatile and no isotopic fractionation is expected
in meteorites. Meteoritic isotopic abundances agree with the terrestrial values and can thus be considered to be a reliable
reference for the solar isotopic composition. The measurements show that the solar wind elemental Ni/Fe-ratio and the isotopic
composition of solar wind nickel are consistent with the meteoritic values. This supports the concept that low-FIP elements
are fed without relative fractionation into the solar wind. Our result also confirms the absence of substantial isotopic fractionation
processes for medium and heavy ions acting in the solar wind. 相似文献
8.
Certain meteoritical inclusions contain evidence for the existence of short-lived radioactivities such as 26Al and 41Ca at the time of their formation 4.566 billion years ago. Because the half-lives of these nuclides are so short, this evidence
requires that no more than about a million years elapsed between their nucleosynthesis and their inclusion in cm-sized solids
in the solar nebula. This abbreviated time span can be explained if these nuclides were synthesized in a stellar source such
as a supernova, and were then transported across the interstellar medium by the resulting shock wave, which then triggered
the gravitational collapse of the presolar molecular cloud core. Detailed 2D and 3D numerical hydrodynamical models are reviewed
and show that such a scenario is consistent with the time scale constraint, and with the need to both trigger collapse and
to inject shock-wave matter into the collapsing protostellar cloud and onto the protoplanetary disk formed by the collapse.
This revised version was published online in June 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
9.
Until pristine samples can be returned from cometary nuclei, primitive meteorites represent our best source of information
about organic chemistry in the early solar system. However, this material has been affected by secondary processing on asteroidal
parent bodies which probably did not affect the material now present in cometary nuclei. Production of meteoritic organic
matter apparently involved the following sequence of events: Molecule formation by a variety of reaction pathways in dense
interstellar clouds; Condensation of those molecules onto refractory interstellar grains; Irradiation of organic-rich interstellar-grain
mantles producing a range of molecular fragments and free radicals; Inclusion of those interstellar grains into the protosolar
nebula with probable heating of at least some grain mantles during passage through the shock wave bounding the solar accretion
disc; Agglomeration of residual interstellar grains and locally produced nebular condensates into asteroid-sized planetesimals;
Heating of planetesimals by decay of extinct radionuclides; Melting of ice to produce liquid water within asteroidal bodies;
Reaction of interstellar molecules, fragments and radicals with each other and with the aqueous environment, possibly catalysed
by mineral grains; Loss of water and other volatiles to space yielding a partially hydrated lithology containing a complex
suite of organic molecules; Heating of some of this organic matter to generate a kerogen-like complex; Mixing of heated and
unheated material to yield the meteoritic material now observed. Properties of meteoritic organic matter believed to be consistent
with this scenario include: Systematic decrease of abundance with increasing C number in homologous series of characterisable
molecules; Complete structural diversity within homologous series; Predominance of branched-chain isomers; Considerable isotopic
variability among characterisable molecules and within kerogen-like material; Substantial deuterium enrichment in all organic
fractions; Some fractions significantly enriched in nitrogen-15; Modest excesses of L-enantiomers in some racemisation-resistant
molecules but no general enantiomeric preference. Despite much speculation about the possible role of Fischer-Tropsch catalytic
hydrogenation of CO in production of organic molecules in the solar nebula, no convincing evidence for such material has been
found in meteorites. A similarity between some meteoritic organics and those produced by Miller-Urey discharge synthesis may
reflect involvement of common intermediates rather than the operation of electric discharges in the early solar system. Meteoritic
organic matter constitutes a useful, but not exact, guide to what we shall find with in situ analytical and sample-return
missions to cometary nuclei.
This revised version was published online in June 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
10.
Clusters of galaxies are self-gravitating systems of mass ∼1014–1015
h
−1 M⊙ and size ∼1–3h
−1 Mpc. Their mass budget consists of dark matter (∼80%, on average), hot diffuse intracluster plasma (≲20%) and a small fraction
of stars, dust, and cold gas, mostly locked in galaxies. In most clusters, scaling relations between their properties, like
mass, galaxy velocity dispersion, X-ray luminosity and temperature, testify that the cluster components are in approximate
dynamical equilibrium within the cluster gravitational potential well. However, spatially inhomogeneous thermal and non-thermal
emission of the intracluster medium (ICM), observed in some clusters in the X-ray and radio bands, and the kinematic and morphological
segregation of galaxies are a signature of non-gravitational processes, ongoing cluster merging and interactions. Both the
fraction of clusters with these features, and the correlation between the dynamical and morphological properties of irregular
clusters and the surrounding large-scale structure increase with redshift.
In the current bottom-up scenario for the formation of cosmic structure, where tiny fluctuations of the otherwise homogeneous
primordial density field are amplified by gravity, clusters are the most massive nodes of the filamentary large-scale structure
of the cosmic web and form by anisotropic and episodic accretion of mass, in agreement with most of the observational evidence.
In this model of the universe dominated by cold dark matter, at the present time most baryons are expected to be in a diffuse
component rather than in stars and galaxies; moreover, ∼50% of this diffuse component has temperature ∼0.01–1 keV and permeates
the filamentary distribution of the dark matter. The temperature of this Warm-Hot Intergalactic Medium (WHIM) increases with
the local density and its search in the outer regions of clusters and lower density regions has been the quest of much recent
observational effort.
Over the last thirty years, an impressive coherent picture of the formation and evolution of cosmic structures has emerged
from the intense interplay between observations, theory and numerical experiments. Future efforts will continue to test whether
this picture keeps being valid, needs corrections or suffers dramatic failures in its predictive power. 相似文献
11.
Now extinct short-lived radioactive isotopes were apparently extant in the early solar system. Their abundances can be inferred
from isotopic effects in their daughter nuclei in primitive meteorites, and the deviation of these abundances from expectations
from continuous galactic nucleosynthesis yields important information on the last nucleosynthetic events that contributed
new nuclei to the solar system and on the general circumstances of the Sun's birth. In this paper we present a rudimentary
model that attempts to reconcile the abundances of ten short-lived radioactivities in the early solar system. In broad outlines,
the picture requires 1) that Type Ia supernovae maintained a steady ISM supply of 53Mn and 146Sm, 2) that the r-process events that slowly admixed new 107Pd, 129I, 182Hf, and 244Pu nuclei to the solar system occurred over an interval of several hundred million years prior to solar system formation,
and 3) that a massive star, by injecting only material outside its helium-exhausted core into the proto-solar nebula, contributed
26Al, 36Cl, 41Ca, 60Fe, and 182Hf no more than one million years prior to the Sun's birth. In this picture, the live 182Hf present in the early solar system was not due to r-process production but rather to a fast s-process in helium or carbon
burning shell in the massive star. We conclude with a possible chemical-memory explanation for the putative 53Cr/52Cr gradient in the solar system.
This revised version was published online in June 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
12.
Observations and measurements in the solar wind, the Jovian atmosphere and the gases trapped in lunar surface material provide
the main evidence from which the isotopic composition of H, He and Ne in the Protosolar Cloud (PSC) is derived. These measurements
and observations are reviewed and the corrections are discussed that are needed for obtaining from them the PSC isotopic ratios.
The D/H, 3He/4He (D+3He)/H, 20Ne/22Ne and 21Ne/22Ne ratios adopted for the PSC are presented. Protosolar abundances provide the basis for the interpretation of isotopic ratios
measured in the various solar system objects. In this article we discuss constraints derived from the PSC abundances on solar
mixing, the origin of atmospheric neon, and the nature of the “SEP” component of neon trapped at the lunar surface. We also
discuss constraints on the galactic evolution provided by the isotopic abundances of H and He in the PSC.
This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
13.
John F. Kerridge 《Space Science Reviews》1991,56(1-2):177-184
Carbon isotope ratios have been measured for CN in the coma of comet Halley and for several CHON particles emitted by Halley. Of these, only the CHON-particle data may be reasonably related to organic matter in the cometary nucleus, but the true range of 13C/12C values in those particles is quite uncertain. The D/H ratio in H2O in the Halley coma resembles that in Titan/Uranus. The next decade should substantially improve our understanding of the distribution of C, H, N, and O isotopes in cometary organics. The isotopic composition of meteoritic organic matter is better understood and can serve as a useful analog for the cometary case. 相似文献
14.
Electron and proton acceleration by a super-Dreicer electric field is further investigated in a non-neutral reconnecting current
sheet (RCS) with a variable plasma density. The tangential B
z
and transverse magnetic field components B
x
are assumed to vary with the distances x and z from the X nullpoint linearly and exponentially, respectively; the longitudinal component (a ‘guiding field’) is accepted
constant. Particles are found to gain a bulk of their energy in a thin region close to the X nullpoint where the RCS density
increases with z exponentially with the index λ and the tangential magnetic field B
x
also increases with z exponentially with the index α. For the RCS with a constant density (λ = 0), the variations of the tangential magnetic field
lead to particle power-law energy spectra with the spectral indices γ1 being dependent on the exponent α as:
for protons and
for electrons in a strong guiding field (β > 10−2) and
for electrons in a moderate or weak guiding field (β > 10−4). For the RCS with an exponential density increase in the vicinity of the X nullpoint (λ≥ 0) there is a further increase
of the resulting spectral indices γ that depends on the density exponent index λ as
for protons and for electrons in weaker guiding fields and as
for electrons in stronger guiding fields. These dependencies can explain a wide variety (1.5–10) of particle spectral indices
observed in solar flares by the variations of a magnetic field topology and physical conditions in a reconnecting region.
This can be used as a diagnostic tool for the investigation of the RCS dynamics from the accelerated particle spectra found
from hard X-ray and microwave emission. 相似文献
15.
A. Grimberg D. S. Burnett P. Bochsler H. Baur R. Wieler 《Space Science Reviews》2007,130(1-4):293-300
We discuss data of light noble gases from the solar wind implanted into a metallic glass target flown on the Genesis mission.
Helium and neon isotopic compositions of the bulk solar wind trapped in this target during 887 days of exposure to the solar
wind do not deviate significantly from the values in foils of the Apollo Solar Wind Composition experiments, which have been
exposed for hours to days. In general, the depth profile of the Ne isotopic composition is similar to those often found in
lunar soils, and essentially very well reproduced by ion-implantation modelling, adopting the measured velocity distribution
of solar particles during the Genesis exposure and assuming a uniform isotopic composition of solar wind neon. The results
confirm that contributions from high-energy particles to the solar wind fluence are negligible, which is consistent with in-situ
observations. This makes the enigmatic “SEP-Ne” component, apparently present in lunar grains at relatively large depth, obsolete.
20Ne/ 22Ne ratios in gas trapped very near the metallic glass surface are up to 10% higher than predicted by ion implantation simulations.
We attribute this superficially trapped gas to very low-speed, current-sheet-related solar wind, which has been fractionated
in the corona due to inefficient Coulomb drag. 相似文献
16.
Vasconcelos Maria Jaqueline Jatenco-Pereira Vera Opher Reuven 《Space Science Reviews》2003,107(1-2):383-386
In this work we examine the damping of Alfvén waves as a source of plasma heating in disks and magnetic funnels of young solar
like stars, the T Tauri stars. We apply four different damping mechanisms in this study: viscous-resistive, collisional, nonlinear
and turbulent, exploring a wide range of wave frequencies, from 10−5Ωi to 10−1Ωi (where Ωi is the ion-cyclotron frequency). The results show that Alfvénic heating can increase the ionization rate of accretion disks
and elevate the temperature of magnetic funnels of T Tauri stars opening possibilities to explain some observational features
of these objects.
This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
17.
Bruce Fegley Jr. 《Space Science Reviews》2000,92(1-2):177-200
Thermochemical equilibrium calculations predict gas phase, gas-grain, and solid phase reactions as a function of pressure
and temperature in the solar nebula. However, chemical reactions proceed at different rates, which generally decrease exponentially
with decreasing temperature. At sufficiently low temperatures (which vary depending on the specific reaction) there may not
have been enough time for the predicted equilibrium chemistry to have taken place before the local environment cooled significantly
or before the gaseous solar nebula was dispersed. As a consequence, some of the high temperature chemistry established in
sufficiently hot regions of the solar nebula may be quenched or frozen in without the production of predicted low temperature
phases. Experimental studies and theoretical models of three exemplary low temperature reactions, the formation of troilite
(FeS), magnetite (Fe3O4), and hydrous silicates, have been done to quantify these ideas. A comparison of the chemical reaction rates with the estimated
nebular lifetime of 0.1-10 million years indicates that troilite formation proceeded to completion in the solar nebula. Magnetite
formation was much slower and only thin magnetite rims could have formed on metal grains. Hydrous silicate formation is predicted
to be even slower, and hydrous silicates in meteorites and interplanetary dust particles probably formed later on the parent
bodies of these objects, instead of in the solar nebula.
This revised version was published online in June 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
18.
Alain Abergel Laurent Verstraete Christine Joblin René Laureijs Marc-Antoine Miville-Deschênes 《Space Science Reviews》2005,119(1-4):247-271
Infrared spectroscopy and photometry with ISO covering most of the emission range of the interstellar medium has led to important
progress in the understanding of the physics and chemistry of the gas, the nature and evolution of the dust grains and also
the coupling between the gas and the grains. We review here the ISO results on the cool and low-excitation regions of the
interstellar medium, where T
gas≲ 500 K, n
H∼ 100–105 cm−3 and the electron density is a few 10−4.
JEL codes: D24, L60, 047
Based on observations with ISO, an ESA project with instruments funded by ESA Member States (especially the PI countries:
France, Germany, The Netherlands, and the United Kingdom), and with the participation of ISAS and NASA. 相似文献
19.
W. R. Binns M. E. Wiedenbeck M. Arnould A. C. Cummings G. A. de Nolfo S. Goriely M. H. Israel R. A. Leske R. A. Mewaldt G. Meynet L. M. Scott E. C. Stone T. T. von Rosenvinge 《Space Science Reviews》2007,130(1-4):439-449
We have measured the isotopic abundances of neon and a number of other species in the galactic cosmic rays (GCRs) using the
Cosmic Ray Isotope Spectrometer (CRIS) aboard the ACE spacecraft. Our data are compared to recent results from two-component
(Wolf–Rayet material plus solar-like mixtures) Wolf–Rayet (WR) models. The three largest deviations of galactic cosmic ray
isotope ratios from solar-system ratios predicted by these models, 12C/16O, 22Ne/20Ne, and 58Fe/56Fe, are very close to those observed. All of the isotopic ratios that we have measured are consistent with a GCR source consisting
of ∼20% of WR material mixed with ∼80% material with solar-system composition. Since WR stars are evolutionary products of
OB stars, and most OB stars exist in OB associations that form superbubbles, the good agreement of our data with WR models
suggests that OB associations within superbubbles are the likely source of at least a substantial fraction of GCRs. In previous
work it has been shown that the primary 59Ni (which decays only by electron-capture) in GCRs has decayed, indicating a time interval between nucleosynthesis and acceleration
of >105 y. It has been suggested that in the OB association environment, ejecta from supernovae might be accelerated by the high
velocity WR winds on a time scale that is short compared to the half-life of 59Ni. Thus the 59Ni might not have time to decay and this would cast doubt upon the OB association origin of cosmic rays. In this paper we
suggest a scenario that should allow much of the 59Ni to decay in the OB association environment and conclude that the hypothesis of the OB association origin of cosmic rays
appears to be viable. 相似文献
20.
We are making precise determinations of the abundance of the light isotope of helium, 3He. The 3He abundance in Milky Way sources impacts stellar evolution, chemical evolution, and cosmology. The abundance of 3He is derived from measurements of the hyperfine transition of 3He+ which has a rest wavelength of 3.46 cm (8.665 GHz). As with all the light elements, the present interstellar 3He abundance results from a combination of Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBNS) and stellar nucleosynthesis. We are measuring the
3He abundance in Milky Way H ii regions and planetary nebulae (PNe). The source sample is currently comprised of 60 H ii regions and 12 PNe. H ii regions are examples of zero-age objects that are young relative to the age of the Galaxy. Therefore their abundances chronicle
the results of billions of years of Galactic chemical evolution. PNe probe material that has been ejected from low-mass (M≤ 2M
⊙) to intermediate-mass (M∼2–5M
⊙) stars to be further processed by future stellar generations. Because the Milky Way ISM is optically thin at centimeter wavelengths,
our source sample probes a larger volume of the Galactic disk than does any other light element tracer of Galactic chemical
evolution. The sources in our sample possess a wide range of physical properties (including object type, size, temperature,
excitation, etc.). The 3He abundances we derive have led to what has been called “The 3He Problem”. 相似文献