期刊
RADIOCARBON
卷 59, 期 2, 页码 293-302出版社
UNIV ARIZONA DEPT GEOSCIENCES
DOI: 10.1017/RDC.2016.50
关键词
Supernova; Miyake event; gamma flux
资金
- Balliol Inter-disciplinary Institute
- Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [26887019, 16K13802] Funding Source: KAKEN
Single-year spikes in radiocarbon production are caused by intense bursts of radiation from space. Supernovae emit both high-energy particle and electromagnetic radiation, but it is the latter that is most likely to strike the atmosphere all at once and cause a surge in C-14 production. In the 1990s, it was claimed that the supernova in 1006 CE produced exactly this effect. With the C-14 spikes in the years 775 and 994 CE now attributed to extreme solar events, attention has returned to the question of whether historical supernovae are indeed detectable using annual C-14 measurements. Here, we combine new and existing measurements over six documented and putative supernovae, and conclude that no such astrophysical event has yet left a distinct imprint on the past atmospheric C-14 record.
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