The Sun’s Birth Environment: Context for MeteoriticsOPEN ACCESS
Steve Desch, Núria Miret-Roig Update (26 September 2024): Space Science Reviews LINK Accepted for publication in Space Science Reviews as part of International Space Science Institute “Evolution of the Solar System: Constraints from Meteorites” meeting,…
Evidence of both molecular cloud and fluid chemistry in Ryugu regolithOPEN ACCESS
Maitrayee Bose, Robert A. Root, Yunbin Guan, Jacob Eaton, Axel Wittmann, Thomas Skrmetti, Steven J. Desch Science Advances24 Jul 2024Vol 10, Issue 30 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The sulfur chemistry of (162173) Ryugu particles…
Igneous meteorites suggest Aluminium-26 heterogeneity in the early Solar NebulaOPEN ACCESS
Evgenii Krestianinov, Yuri Amelin, Qing-Zhu Yin, Paige Cary, Magdalena H. Huyskens, Audrey Miller, Supratim Dey, Yuki Hibiya, Haolan Tang, Edward D. Young, Andreas Pack & Tommaso Di Rocco Nature Communications, Volume 14, Article number: 4940…
The NC-CC dichotomy explained by significant addition of CAI-like dust to the Bulk Molecular Cloud (BMC) composition
Teng Ee Yap, François L.H. Tissot IcarusIn Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 30 June 2023 LINK “Nucleosynthetic isotope anomalies of planetary materials provide insight into their genetic ties, informing our understanding of early Solar System…
Exploring refractory organics in extraterrestrial particlesOPEN ACCESS
Alexey Potapov, Maria Elisabetta Palumbo, Zelia Dionnet, Andrea Longobardo, Cornelia Jäger, Giuseppe Baratta, Alessandra Rotundi, Thomas Henning accepted for publication in ApJ LINK Update (23 August 2022): The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 935, Number 2Published: 23…
The Timing of Potential Last Nucleosynthetic Injections into the Protosolar Molecular Cloud Inferred from 41Ca–26Al Systematics of Bulk CAIsOPEN ACCESS
Yaray Ku, Michail I. Petaev, and Stein B. Jacobsen The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 931, Number 1Published: 23 May 2022 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Short-lived radionuclides (SLRs) provide important information about the chronology of…
Titanium isotope systematics of refractory inclusions: Echoes of molecular cloud heterogeneity
Quinn R. Shollenberger, Jan Render, Michelle K. Jordan, Kaitlyn A. McCain, Samuel Ebert, Addi Bischoff, Thorsten Kleine, Edward D.Young Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaAvailable online 5 March 2022 LINK “Calcium-aluminum-rich inclusions (CAIs) are highly refractory objects…
Cosmic symplectite recorded irradiation by nearby massive stars in the solar system’s parent molecular cloud
Lionel G. Vacher, Ryan C. Ogliore, Clive Jones, Nan Liu, David A. Fike Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaIn Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 25 June 2021 LINK “The Sun’s astrophysical birth environment affected the formation and…
Oxygen isotopic heterogeneity in the early Solar System inherited from the protosolar molecular cloudOPEN ACCESS
Alexander N. Krot, Kazuhide Nagashima, James R. Lyons, Jeong-Eun Lee, Martin Bizzarro Science Advances 16 Oct 2020:Vol. 6, no. 42, eaay2724DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aay2724 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The Sun is 16O-enriched (Δ17O = −28.4 ±…
Potassium isotope anomalies in meteorites inherited from the protosolar molecular cloudOPEN ACCESS
Y. Ku, S. B. Jacobsen Science Advances 09 Oct 2020:Vol. 6, no. 41, eabd0511 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Potassium (K) and other moderately volatile elements are depleted in many solar system bodies relative to…
Isotopic evolution of the inner Solar System inferred from molybdenum isotopes in meteoritesOPEN ACCESS
Fridolin Spitzer, Christoph Burkhardt, Gerrit Budde, Thomas S. Kruijer, Alessandro Morbidelli, Thorsten Kleine Accepted for publication in Astrophysical Journal Letters, June 17, 2020 PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The fundamentally different isotopic compositions of non-carbonaceous (NC) and…
The Non-carbonaceous–Carbonaceous Meteorite DichotomyOPEN ACCESS
T. Kleine, G. Budde, C. Burkhardt, T. S. Kruijer, E. A. Worsham, A. Morbidelli & F. Nimmo Space Science Reviews, Volume 216, Article number: 55 (2020) LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The isotopic dichotomy between…
Solar Elemental AbundancesOPEN ACCESS
Katharina Lodders review paper in The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Planetary Science, Oxford University Press (2020) PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Review of the history of solar system elemental abundances with a new assessment of elemental and…
Triggering Collapse of the Presolar Dense Cloud Core and Injecting Short-Lived Radioisotopes with a Shock Wave. VI. Protostar and Protoplanetary Disk FormationOPEN ACCESS
Alan P. Boss accepted by ApJ Submitted: 12 November, 2018 PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Cosmochemical evaluations of the initial meteoritical abundance of the short-lived radioisotope (SLRI) 26Al have remained fairly constant since 1976, while estimates for…
Interstellar Detection of Methyl Isocyanate CH3NCO in Sgr B2(N): A Link from Molecular Clouds to Comets
D. T. Halfen et al The Astrophysical Journal Letters 2015 ApJ 812 L5 LINK “A new interstellar molecule, CH 3NCO (methyl isocyanate), has been detected using the 12 m telescope of the Arizona Radio Observatory…