期刊
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
卷 117, 期 36, 页码 21873-21879出版社
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1916769117
关键词
Fe-60; supernova; ISM; accelerator mass spectrometry; deep-sea sediments
资金
- Austrian Science Fund through the European Science Foundation Collaborative Research Project CoDustMas [AI00428]
- Australian Research Council [DP140100136, DP180100495, DP180100496]
- German Academic Exchange Service project [56266169]
- Group of Eight Australia-Germany Joint Research Cooperation Scheme
- University of Vienna
- European Cooperation in Science and Technology ChETEC Action [CA16117]
- Australian Government for the Heavy Ion Accelerator Facility at ANU through the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy
Nuclides synthesized in massive stars are ejected into space via stellar winds and supernova explosions. The solar system (SS) moves through the interstellar medium and collects these nudeosynthesis products. One such product is Fe-60, a radionuclide with a half-life of 2.6 My that is predominantly produced in massive stars and ejected in supernova explosions. Extraterrestrial Fe-60 has been found on Earth, suggesting close-by supernova explosions similar to 2 to 3 and similar to 6 Ma. Here, we report on the detection of a continuous interstellar Fe-60 influx on Earth over the past similar to 33,000 y. This time period coincides with passage of our SS through such interstellar clouds, which have a significantly larger particle density compared to the local average interstellar medium embedding our SS for the past few million years. The interstellar Fe-60 was extracted from five deep-sea sediment samples and accelerator mass spectrometry was used for single-atom counting. The low number of 19 detected atoms indicates a continued but low influx of interstellar Fe-60. The measured Fe-60 time profile over the 33 ky, obtained with a time resolution of about +/- 9 ky, does not seem to reflect any large changes in the interstellar particle density during Earth's passage through local interstellar clouds, which could be expected if the local cloud represented an isolated remnant of the most recent supernova ejecta that traversed the Earth similar to 2 to 3 Ma. The identified Fe-60 influx may signal a late echo of some million-year-old supernovae with the Fe-60-bearing dust particles still permeating the interstellar medium.
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