Origin of Elements in the Solar System: Implications of Post-1957 Observations

Front Matter....Pages i-xxiii
Ghiorso Remembers Seaborg....Pages 3-19
Superheavy Elements at Berkeley: The Culmination of Seaborg’s Career....Pages 21-33
The Discovery of Superheavy Elements 107–112 and of the Deformed Shell at N = 162....Pages 35-47
The Decay of 19N....Pages 51-61
Measuring the Astrophysics Rate of the 21Na(p,γ)22Mg Reaction....Pages 63-70
Production and β-Decay Half-Lives of Very N-Rich Nuclei....Pages 71-80
The Role of the N = 28 and N = 40 Closed Shells in the Production of the Neutron-Rich Ca-Ti-Cr-Fe-Ni Elements in the Universe....Pages 81-92
Experimental Studies Related to s-process Abundances....Pages 93-101
Neutron Capture Cross Section Measurements for the Analysis of the s-process....Pages 103-110
About the Reliability of Extrapolation of Nuclear Structure Data for r-process Calculations....Pages 111-118
The Astrophysical r-process....Pages 119-142
Nuclear Aspects of Stellar and Explosive Nucleosynthesis....Pages 143-152
Proton Captures in the Atmosphere of Accreting Neutron Stars....Pages 153-163
The Origin of the Elements....Pages 167-174
Chemical Evolution Tomorrow....Pages 175-188
LiBeB Nucleosynthesis and Clues to the Chemical Evolution of the Universe....Pages 189-201
Measurement of the 44Ti Half-life and its Significance for Supernovae....Pages 203-210
On the Half-Life of 44 Ti in Young Supernova Remnants....Pages 211-216
Abundances in SN 1987A and Other Supernovae....Pages 217-223
The Birth of Planetary Systems Directly from Supernovae....Pages 225-240
Bipolar Outflows in Stellar Astrophysics....Pages 241-249
Mini-blackhole at the Solar Center and Isotopic Abundances in the Primitive Solar Nebula....Pages 253-259
Abundances of the Elements in the Sun....Pages 261-277
Isotopic Ratios: The Key to Elemental Abundances and Nuclear Reactions in the Sun....Pages 279-287
Critical Evaluation of CI Chondrites as the Solar System Standard of Elemental Abundances....Pages 289-300
Sensitivity of Solar Oscillation Frequencies to Element Abundances....Pages 301-316
Inverse and Forward Helioseismology: Understanding the Interior Composition and Structure of the Present Sun....Pages 317-344
Heterogeneous Accretion of the Sun and the Inner Planets....Pages 345-349
Interstellar Matter, Sun, and the Solar system....Pages 351-358
Isotope Anomalies in Tellurium in Interstellar Diamonds....Pages 361-367
Isotope Abundance Anomalies in Meteorites: Clues to Yields of Individual Nucleosynthesis Processes....Pages 369-384
Variation of Molybdenum Isotopic Composition in Iron Meteorites....Pages 385-400
Iron Meteorites and Paradigm Shifts....Pages 401-406
Chronology of Early Solar System Events: Dating with Short-lived Nuclides....Pages 407-430
Xenology, FUN Anomalies and the Plutonium-244 Story....Pages 431-499
Extinct 244 Pu: Chronology of Early Solar System Formation....Pages 501-509
A Search for Natural Pu-244 in Deep-Sea Sediment: Progress Report....Pages 511-518
Strange Xenon Isotope Ratios in Jupiter....Pages 519-527
Abundances of Hydrogen and Helium Isotopes in Jupiter....Pages 529-543
The Possible Role of PeP Weak Interactions in the Early History of the Earth....Pages 545-554
Ce-Nd-Sr Isotope Systematics of Eucrites and Lunar Rocks....Pages 555-572
Abundance of 182Hf and the Supernova Model of the Solar System....Pages 575-580
Binary Origin of Solar System....Pages 581-588
Origin of Elements in the Solar System....Pages 589-643
Back Matter....Pages 645-646