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Terrestrial Ozone Depletion Due to a Milky Way Gamma-Ray Burst
Brian C. Thomas, Charles H. Jackman, Adrian L. Melott +5
Based on cosmological rates, it is probable that at least once in the last Gy the Earth has been irradiated by a gamma-ray burst in our Galaxy from within 2 kpc. Using a two-dimens…
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Ozone Abundance in a Nitrogen-Carbon Dioxide Dominated Terrestrial Paleoatmosphere
B. C. Thomas, A. L. Melott, L. D. Martin +1
We compute the ozone distribution for a model terrestrial paleoatmosphere in which the present oxygen abundance is largely replaced by carbon dioxide, which we argue is a reasonabl…