2018/07/27(Fri) 11:00 -12:30 七樓研討室 7F, P7F Seminar Room
Title
Did a Low-Mass Supernova Trigger the Formation of the Solar System? Clues from Stable Isotopes and Beryllium-10
Speaker
錢永忠 教授 (School of Physics & Astronomy, the University of Minnesota) Prof. Yong-Zhong Qian (School of Physics & Astronomy, the University of Minnesota)Abstract
About 4.6 billion years ago, some event disturbed a cloud of gas and dust, triggering the gravitational collapse that led to the formation of the solar system. A core-collapse supernova, whose shock wave is capable of compressing such a cloud, is an obvious candidate for the initiating event. This hypothesis can be tested because supernovae also produce telltale patterns of short-lived radionuclides, which would be preserved today as isotopic anomalies. Previous studies of the forensic evidence have been inconclusive, finding a pattern of isotopes differing from that produced in conventional supernova models. Here we argue that these difficulties either do not arise or are mitigated if the initiating supernova was a special type, low in mass and explosion energy. Key to our conclusion is the demonstration that short-lived Be-10 can be readily synthesized in such supernovae by neutrino interactions, while anomalies in stable isotopes are suppressed.
Language
演講語言 (Language): in English