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Astrophysics and Astronomy

Dartmouth College

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2007

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Mixing And Homogenization In The Early Solar System: Clues From Sr, Ba, Nd, And Sm Isotopes In Meteorites, Rasmus Andreasen, Mukul Sharma Aug 2007

Mixing And Homogenization In The Early Solar System: Clues From Sr, Ba, Nd, And Sm Isotopes In Meteorites, Rasmus Andreasen, Mukul Sharma

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High-precision barium isotopic compositions of large samples of an ordinary chondrite and a eucrite are identical to the terrestrial values. In contrast, the carbonaceous chondrites reveal excesses in 135Ba and 137Ba of around +39 and +22 parts per million (ppm), respectively; no anomalies are resolvable in 130,132,138Ba. High-precision Sr isotopic compositions of all meteorites are identical within error. The data are consistent with the carbonaceous chondrites having an excess in the r-process 135,137Ba with respect to Earth, eucrite parent bodies, and ordinary chondrites. The carbonaceous chondrites, however, display no variation in the r- and …


The Chemical Distribution In A Subluminous Type Ia Supernova: Hubble Space Telescope Images Of The Sn 1885 Remnant, Robert A. Fesen, Peter A. Hoflich, Andrew J. S. Hamilton, Molly C. Hammell Mar 2007

The Chemical Distribution In A Subluminous Type Ia Supernova: Hubble Space Telescope Images Of The Sn 1885 Remnant, Robert A. Fesen, Peter A. Hoflich, Andrew J. S. Hamilton, Molly C. Hammell

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SN 1885 was a probable subluminous SN Ia that occurred in the bulge of the Andromeda galaxy, M31, at a projected location 16'' from the nucleus. Here we present and analyze Hubble Space Telescope images of the SN 1885 remnant seen in absorption against the M31 bulge via the resonance lines of Ca I, Ca II, Fe I, and Fe II. Viewed in Ca II H and K line absorption, the remnant appears as a nearly black circular spot with an outermost angular radius of 0.40'' ± 0.025'', implying a maximum linear radius of 1.52 ± 0.15 pc at M31's …