Disturbance Ecology from nearby Supernovae
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
Monte Carlo simulations of Galactic Supernovae are carried out to study the rate of nearby events, which may have a direct effect on Earth's ecology though ionizing radiation and cosmic ray bombardment. A nearby supernova may have left a radioactive imprint (60Fe) in recent galactic history.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0205110,
title = {Disturbance Ecology from nearby Supernovae},
author = {D. H. Hartmann and K. Kretschmer and R. Diehl},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0205110},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
7 pages, 1 Fig, to appear in Proc. 11th Workshop on Nuclear Astrophysics, Ringberg Castle, 2/11-16, 2002; available online at http://www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/english/greenreports.html