New Constraints on the Abundance of 60Fe in the Early Solar System

Trappitsch, Reto; Boehnke, Patrick; Stephan, Thomas; Telus, Myriam; Savina, Michael R.; Pardo, Olivia; Davis, Andrew M.; Dauphas, Nicolas; Pellin, Michael J.; Huss, Gary R.

doi:10.3847/2041-8213/aabba9

Title: New Constraints on the Abundance of ⁶⁰Fe in the Early Solar System

Journal Article · Thu Apr 19 04:00:00 UTC 2018 · The Astrophysical Journal. Letters (Online)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/aabba9 · OSTI ID:1438675

^[1]; Boehnke, Patrick ^[2];

^[2]; Telus, Myriam ^[3]; Savina, Michael R. ^[1]; Pardo, Olivia ^[2];

^[4]; Dauphas, Nicolas ^[4]; Pellin, Michael J. ^[5]; Huss, Gary R. ^[6]

Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States). Nuclear and Chemical Sciences Division
Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States). Dept. of the Geophysical Sciences; Chicago Center for Cosmochemistry, IL (United States)
Univ. of California, Santa Cruz, CA (United States). Earth and Planetary Sciences
Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States). Dept. of the Geophysical Sciences. Enrico Fermi Inst.; Chicago Center for Cosmochemistry, IL (United States)
Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States). Dept. of the Geophysical Sciences. Enrico Fermi Inst.; Chicago Center for Cosmochemistry, IL (United States); Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Materials Science Division
Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI (United States). Hawai'i Inst. of Geophysics and Planetology. School of Ocean, Earth Science and Technology

Establishing the abundance of the extinct radionuclide ⁶⁰Fe (half-life 2.62 Ma) in the early solar system is important for understanding the astrophysical context of solar system formation. While bulk measurements of early solar system phases show a low abundance consistent with galactic background, some in situ measurements by secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) imply a higher abundance, which would require injection from a nearby supernova (SN). In this paper, we present in situ nickel isotopic analyses by resonance ionization mass spectrometry (RIMS) in a chondrule from the primitive meteorite Semarkona (LL3.00). The same chondrule had been previously analyzed by SIMS. Despite improved precision compared to SIMS, the RIMS nickel isotopic data do not reveal any resolved excesses of ⁶⁰Ni that could be unambiguously ascribed to in situ ⁶⁰Fe decay. Linear regression of ⁶⁰Ni/⁵⁸Ni versus ⁵⁶Fe/⁵⁸Ni yields an initial ⁶⁰Fe/⁵⁶Fe ratio for this chondrule of (3.8 ± 6.9) × 10^-8, which is consistent with both the low initial value found by bulk measurements and the low end of the range of initial ratios inferred from some in situ work. The same regression also gives a solar initial ⁶⁰Ni/⁵⁸Ni ratio, which shows that this sample was not disturbed by nickel mobilization, thus agreeing with a low initial ⁶⁰Fe/⁵⁶Fe ratio. These findings agree with a re-evaluation of previous SIMS measurements of the same sample. Finally, supernova injection of ⁶⁰Fe into the solar system or its parental cloud material is therefore not necessary to account for the measured solar system's initial amount of ⁶⁰Fe.

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Research Organization:: Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States); Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States); Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE; LLNL Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program; National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) (United States); National Science Foundation (NSF) (United States)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC52-07NA27344

OSTI ID:: 1438675

Report Number(s):: LLNL-JRNL--740364

Journal Information:: The Astrophysical Journal. Letters (Online), Journal Name: The Astrophysical Journal. Letters (Online) Journal Issue: 2 Vol. 857; ISSN 2041-8213

Publisher:: Institute of Physics (IOP)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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