Lifetimes of interstellar dust from cosmic ray exposure ages of presolar silicon carbide
Abstract
We determined interstellar cosmic ray exposure ages of 40 large presolar silicon carbide grains extracted from the Murchison CM2 meteorite. Our ages, based on cosmogenic Ne-21, range from 3.9 ± 1.6 Ma to ∼3 ± 2 Ga before the start of the Solar System ∼4.6 Ga ago. A majority of the grains have interstellar lifetimes of <300 Ma, which is shorter than theoretical estimates for large grains. These grains condensed in outflows of asymptotic giant branch stars <4.9 Ga ago that possibly formed during an episode of enhanced star formation ∼7 Ga ago. A minority of the grains have ages >1 Ga. Longer lifetimes are expected for large grains. We determined that at least 12 of the analyzed grains were parts of aggregates in the interstellar medium: The large difference in nuclear recoil loss of cosmic ray spallation products 3 He and 21 Ne enabled us to estimate that the irradiated objects in the interstellar medium were up to 30 times larger than the analyzed grains. Furthermore, we estimate that the majority of the grains acquired the bulk of their cosmogenic nuclides in the interstellar medium and not by exposure to an enhanced particle flux of the early active sun.
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- Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
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- USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); National Science Foundation (NSF); National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA); USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1582671
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1642486
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- LLNL-JRNL-779857
Journal ID: ISSN 0027-8424; /pnas/117/4/1884.atom
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- AC52-07NA27344; 19-FS-028; NNX11AG77G; NNX15AC53G; 80NSSC19K050; NNX15AF78G; 80NSSC17K025; DGE-1144082; DGE-1746045
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- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
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- Journal Name: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Journal Volume: 117 Journal Issue: 4; Journal ID: ISSN 0027-8424
- Publisher:
- National Academy of Sciences
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS; interstellar dust; presolar grains; exposure age dating; cosmochemistry; meteorites
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Heck, Philipp R., Greer, Jennika, Kööp, Levke, Trappitsch, Reto, Gyngard, Frank, Busemann, Henner, Maden, Colin, Ávila, Janaína N., Davis, Andrew M., and Wieler, Rainer. Lifetimes of interstellar dust from cosmic ray exposure ages of presolar silicon carbide. United States: N. p., 2020.
Web. doi:10.1073/pnas.1904573117.
Heck, Philipp R., Greer, Jennika, Kööp, Levke, Trappitsch, Reto, Gyngard, Frank, Busemann, Henner, Maden, Colin, Ávila, Janaína N., Davis, Andrew M., & Wieler, Rainer. Lifetimes of interstellar dust from cosmic ray exposure ages of presolar silicon carbide. United States. doi:10.1073/pnas.1904573117.
Heck, Philipp R., Greer, Jennika, Kööp, Levke, Trappitsch, Reto, Gyngard, Frank, Busemann, Henner, Maden, Colin, Ávila, Janaína N., Davis, Andrew M., and Wieler, Rainer. Mon .
"Lifetimes of interstellar dust from cosmic ray exposure ages of presolar silicon carbide". United States. doi:10.1073/pnas.1904573117.
@article{osti_1582671,
title = {Lifetimes of interstellar dust from cosmic ray exposure ages of presolar silicon carbide},
author = {Heck, Philipp R. and Greer, Jennika and Kööp, Levke and Trappitsch, Reto and Gyngard, Frank and Busemann, Henner and Maden, Colin and Ávila, Janaína N. and Davis, Andrew M. and Wieler, Rainer},
abstractNote = {We determined interstellar cosmic ray exposure ages of 40 large presolar silicon carbide grains extracted from the Murchison CM2 meteorite. Our ages, based on cosmogenic Ne-21, range from 3.9 ± 1.6 Ma to ∼3 ± 2 Ga before the start of the Solar System ∼4.6 Ga ago. A majority of the grains have interstellar lifetimes of <300 Ma, which is shorter than theoretical estimates for large grains. These grains condensed in outflows of asymptotic giant branch stars <4.9 Ga ago that possibly formed during an episode of enhanced star formation ∼7 Ga ago. A minority of the grains have ages >1 Ga. Longer lifetimes are expected for large grains. We determined that at least 12 of the analyzed grains were parts of aggregates in the interstellar medium: The large difference in nuclear recoil loss of cosmic ray spallation products 3 He and 21 Ne enabled us to estimate that the irradiated objects in the interstellar medium were up to 30 times larger than the analyzed grains. Furthermore, we estimate that the majority of the grains acquired the bulk of their cosmogenic nuclides in the interstellar medium and not by exposure to an enhanced particle flux of the early active sun.},
doi = {10.1073/pnas.1904573117},
journal = {Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America},
number = 4,
volume = 117,
place = {United States},
year = {2020},
month = {1}
}
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