Extinct technetium in silicon carbide stardust grains: implications for stellar nucleosynthesis |
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Authors: | Savina Michael R Davis Andrew M Tripa C Emil Pellin Michael J Gallino Roberto Lewis Roy S Amari Sachiko |
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Affiliation: | Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439, USA. msavina@anl.gov |
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Abstract: | The isotopic composition of ruthenium (Ru) in individual presolar silicon carbide (SiC) stardust grains bears the signature of s-process nucleosynthesis in asymptotic giant branch stars, plus an anomaly in 99Ru that is explained by the in situ decay of technetium isotope 99Tc in the grains. This finding, coupled with the observation of Tc spectral lines in certain stars, shows that the majority of presolar SiC grains come from low-mass asymptotic giant branch stars, and that the amount of 99Tc produced in such stars is insufficient to have left a detectable 99Ru anomaly in early solar system materials. |
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