期刊
ASTROBIOLOGY
卷 19, 期 6, 页码 825-830出版社
MARY ANN LIEBERT, INC
DOI: 10.1089/ast.2018.1902
关键词
Muons; Supernovae; Mass extinctions; Megafauna
资金
- NASA [NNX14AK22G]
- NASA [NNX14AK22G, 680129] Funding Source: Federal RePORTER
Considerable data and analysis support the detection of one or more supernovae (SNe) at a distance of about 50 pc, similar to 2.6 million years ago. This is possibly related to the extinction event around that time and is a member of a series of explosions that formed the Local Bubble in the interstellar medium. We build on previous work, and propagate the muon flux from SN-initiated cosmic rays from the surface to the depths of the ocean. We find that the radiation dose from the muons will exceed the total present surface dose from all sources at depths up to 1 km and will persist for at least the lifetime of marine megafauna. It is reasonable to hypothesize that this increase in radiation load may have contributed to a newly documented marine megafaunal extinction at that time.
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