Heavy p-process nuclides in early solar system materials

早期太阳系材料中的重 p 过程核素

• 批准号: 146763062
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Carsten Münker
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Institut für Geologie und Mineralogie
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Priority Programmes
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2009-12-31 至 2018-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/146763062?language=en
• 关键词: Heavy; process; nuclides; early; solar

Within our solar system, the isotope inventory of all elements heavier than Fe is mostly made up of nucleosynthetic r- and s-process isotopes. These isotopes are the most abundant ones, and they exhibit fairly uniform isotope compositions in early solar system materials. Our proposal focuses on the so-called heavy p-process isotopes that are among the rarest stable isotopes in the solar system which reflects their specific stellar formation conditions in supernovae. It can therefore be expected that their abundances may vary significantly, but their low abundances have hitherto made sufficiently precise measurements impossible. We now have developed for the first time analytical protocols that permit sufficiently precise abundance measurements of heavy p-process isotopes at the epsilon-level. During the first funding phase, we focused on 180W and started to develop analytical protocols for 174Hf and 180Ta. Measurements of 180W abundances in magmatic iron meteorites, some of the oldest solar system materials, revealed large excesses of 180W that were initially explained as reflecting different degrees of isotopic homogenisation in the early solar system. However, our measurements of 174Hf in chondrites and young differentiated meteorites did not show such heterogeneities. We could subesequently show that the 180W excesses are to a large extent explained by alpha decay of 184Os. In the final phase of the project we will continue to develop analytical protocols that allow combined measurements of p-process 168Yb, 162Er-164Er, 180Ta and 190Pt on the same sample split. These data will complement existing data for the heavy p-process isotopes 180W and 174Hf, thus permitting to evaluate nucleosynthetic models for p-process isotopes and models arguing for the injection of supernova material into the nascent solar system. A particular focus will be on acid leachates and residues of unequilibrated chondrites, in order to identify potential carrier phases of anomalous p-process isotope signatures.

在我们的太阳系内，所有比铁重的元素的同位素库存主要由核合成r-和s-过程同位素组成。这些同位素是最丰富的同位素，它们在早期太阳系物质中表现出相当均匀的同位素组成。我们的建议侧重于所谓的重p过程同位素，这是太阳系中最稀有的稳定同位素之一，反映了超新星中特定的恒星形成条件。因此，可以预期，它们的丰度可能有很大的差异，但它们的丰度低，迄今为止不可能进行足够精确的测量。我们现在已经开发了第一次分析协议，允许足够精确的丰度测量重p过程同位素在ε水平。在第一个资助阶段，我们专注于180 W，并开始开发174 Hf和180 Ta的分析方案。对岩浆铁陨石（一些最古老的太阳系物质）中180 W丰度的测量显示，180 W的大量过剩最初被解释为反映了早期太阳系中不同程度的同位素均匀化。然而，我们的测量174铪在陨石和年轻的分化陨石没有显示出这样的异质性。我们可以随后表明，180 W的过量在很大程度上是由184 Os的α衰变解释的。在项目的最后阶段，我们将继续开发分析协议，允许在同一样品分割上组合测量p过程168 Yb，162 Er-164 Er，180 Ta和190 Pt。这些数据将补充重p过程同位素180 W和174 Hf的现有数据，从而允许评估p过程同位素的核合成模型和认为超新星物质注入新生太阳系的模型。一个特别的重点将是酸浸出液和残留物的不平衡的碳酸盐，以确定潜在的载体相的异常p-过程同位素签名。