The Role of Radioactive Isotopes in Astrophysics

2010/06/30 by Donald Clayton, D.D. Clayton · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Physics and Astronomy · #History and Developments in Astronomy #Radioactive Decay and Measurement Techniques #Twentieth Century Scientific Developments #astro-ph.GA #astro-ph.IM

paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/978-3-642-12698-7_2

published as In "Astronomy with Radioactivities'', as Chapter2, Eds. Roland Diehl, Dieter H. Hartmann, and Nikos Prantzos, Springer Lect. Notes in Physics, Vol. 218, 2010

openalex publication_date 2010/06/30 · arxiv created 2010/09/08 · arxiv updated 2010/09/13 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/04

Abstract

I present both a history of radioactivity in astrophysics and an introduction to the major applications of radioactive abundances to astronomy.

Citations

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