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- The recent high-resolution confirmation of
live iron-60 appears in
Knie,
Korschinek, Faestermann, Dorfi, Rugel,and Wallner,
Physical Review Letters 93, 171103 (2004).
- The new results are used to determine the supernova distance,
and to probe supernova nuclear reactions, in
Fields, Hochmuth, and Ellis
The Astrophysical Journal 621, 902-907 (2005)
[astro-ph/0410525].
- Reivew of terrestrial and gamma-ray evidence for nearby supernovae:
Fields
New Astronomy Reviews 48, 119-123 (2004).
- The first evidence for live iron-60 in a deep-ocean crust is reported in
Knie, Korschinek, Faestermann, Wallner, Scholten, & Hillenbrandt
1999 Physical Review Letters, 83, 18
- The initial Knie et al results are discussed in
Fields & Ellis 1999 New Astronomy , 4, 419
- The first prediction of live radioactivities as the signature
of nearby supernovae
can be found in
Ellis, Fields, & Schramm 1996 Astrophysical Journal, 470, 1227
Brian D. Fields
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