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SUBMITTER: Wallner A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4892339 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wallner A A Feige J J Kinoshita N N Paul M M Fifield L K LK Golser R R Honda M M Linnemann U U Matsuzaki H H Merchel S S Rugel G G Tims S G SG Steier P P Yamagata T T Winkler S R SR
Nature 20160401 7597
The rate of supernovae in our local Galactic neighbourhood within a distance of about 100 parsecs from Earth is estimated to be one every 2-4 million years, based on the total rate in the Milky Way (2.0 ± 0.7 per century). Recent massive-star and supernova activity in Earth's vicinity may be traced by radionuclides with half-lives of up to 100 million years, if trapped in interstellar dust grains that penetrate the Solar System. One such radionuclide is (60)Fe (with a half-life of 2.6 million ye ...[more]