Recent progress on interstellar radionuclides on Earth and the Moon

Autor(en)
Dominik Koll, Sebastian Fichter, Michael Hotchkis, Martin Martschini, Silke Merchel, Stefan Pavetich, Annabel Rolofs, Steve Tims, Sebastian Zwickel, Anton Wallner
Abstrakt

The detection of interstellar radionuclides in geological archives provides insights into nucleosynthesis in stars and stellar explosions as well as interstellar medium dynamics in the Local Bubble and the Local Interstellar Cloud. In this work, current projects to detect interstellar radionuclides with accelerator mass spectrometry will be reviewed. These projects aim to address unsolved questions regarding the timing and the origin of the influxes and to establish new radionuclides for future searches. For the first time, experimental evidence for an inhomogeneous deposition of interstellar 60Fe on Earth will be presented and another potential source for 60Fe on Earth and the Moon, primary galactic cosmic rays, will be introduced.

Organisation(en)
Isotopenphysik
Externe Organisation(en)
Australian National University, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Technische Universität Dresden, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO), Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
Journal
European Physical Journal A
Band
61
Anzahl der Seiten
10
ISSN
1434-6001
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/s10050-025-01554-0
Publikationsdatum
05-2025
Peer-reviewed
Ja
ÖFOS 2012
103014 Kernphysik
ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Link zum Portal
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/c67cad15-df84-4cfe-9fe7-a48c93d3ee34