Reconstructing the Birth Environment of the Solar System

Executive Summary

We seek to identify the presolar dust that contributed calcium and strontium to the solar system and thus understand the stellar neighborhood from which the solar system formed. The methods developed in this study will translate into faster analyses on smaller sample sizes applied to pre-detonation and post-detonation nuclear forensics and significantly improve our current capabilities.

Publications, Presentations, and Patents

Quinn R. Shollenberger, Jan Render, and Gregory A. Brennecka, “Insights into early solar system isotopic reservoirs inferred from Ryugu” (Presentation, 86th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, 6014, Los Angeles, CA, August 14, 2023).