Radioactive 26Al from massive stars in the Galaxy
Radioactive 26Al from massive stars in the Galaxy
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Diehl, Roland , Halloin, Hubert , Kretschmer, Karsten , Lichti, Giselher G. , Schönfelder, Volker , Strong, Andrew W. , von Kienlin, Andreas , Wang, Wei , Jean, Pierre , Knödlseder, Jürgen , Roques, Jean-Pierre , Weidenspointner, Georg , Schanne, Stephane , Hartmann, Dieter H. , Winkler, Christoph and Wunderer, Cornelia
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London: Nature Publishing Group UK
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Galactic elements
The radioactive isotope aluminium-26 has a short half-life of about 720,000 years, so the fact that we can detect γ-rays characteristic of
26
Al is a good indication that nucleosynthesis — the production of new atomic nuclei — is taking place in our Galaxy during the current epoch. Now a γ-ray survey by ESA's INTEGRAL spa...
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Radioactive 26Al from massive stars in the Galaxy
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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_743411737
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_743411737
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0028-0836
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1476-4687,1476-4679
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10.1038/nature04364
