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X-Ray Luminous Supernovae: Threats to Terrestrial Biospheres
Ian R. Brunton, Connor O'Mahoney, Brian D. Fields +2
The spectacular outbursts of energy associated with supernovae (SNe) have long motivated research into their potentially hazardous effects on Earth and analogous environments. Much…
Gamma Ray Bursts: Not so Much Deadlier than We Thought
Brian C. Thomas, Dimitra Atri, Adrian L. Melott
We analyze the additional effect on planetary atmospheres of recently detected gamma-ray burst afterglow photons in the range up to 1 TeV. For an Earth-like atmosphere we find that…
Supernova Triggers for End-Devonian Extinctions
Brian D. Fields, Adrian L. Melott, John Ellis +6
The Late Devonian was a protracted period of low speciation resulting in biodiversity decline, culminating in extinction events near the Devonian-Carboniferous boundary. Recent evi…
From Cosmic Explosions to Terrestrial Fires?: A Reply
Adrian L. Melott, Brian C. Thomas
Deschamps and Mottez (hereafter DM) argue that the Gauss-Matuyama terrestrial magnetic field reversal may have left a vanishing main dipole moment to the field for a time of order…
Ultra-heavy cosmic-ray science--Are r-process nuclei in the cosmic rays produced in supernovae or binary neutron star mergers?
W. R. Binns, M. H. Israel, B. F. Rauch +25
The recent detection of 60Fe in the cosmic rays provides conclusive evidence that there is a recently synthesized component (few MY) in the GCRs (Binns et al. 2016). In addition, t…
Near-Earth Supernova Explosions: Evidence, Implications, and Opportunities
Brian D. Fields, John R. Ellis, Walter R. Binns +36
There is now solid experimental evidence of at least one supernova explosion within 100 pc of Earth within the last few million years, from measurements of the short-lived isotope…