IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/nat/nature/v415y2002i6874d10.1038_415860b.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Self-shielding in the solar nebula

Author

Listed:
  • Robert N. Clayton

    (University of Chicago)

Abstract

Variations in the abundance of isotopes of elements in primitive meteorites carry the record of chemical and nuclear processes that occurred during the formation of the Solar System. Here I explore the possibility that photochemical self-shielding of carbon monoxide, a process that is known to occur in molecular clouds, may also have been important in the solar nebula. In the solar nebula, the process is based on far-ultraviolet radiation from the growing Sun, which is effective over a small distance in the inner part of the nebula. In order to acquire their observed isotope compositions, all of the solid matter in the present inner Solar System must have been processed through this region, and subsequently expelled to greater distances by an X-wind or similar mechanism1.

Suggested Citation

  • Robert N. Clayton, 2002. "Self-shielding in the solar nebula," Nature, Nature, vol. 415(6874), pages 860-861, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:415:y:2002:i:6874:d:10.1038_415860b
    DOI: 10.1038/415860b
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/415860b
    File Function: Abstract
    Download Restriction: Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1038/415860b?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Joseph A. Nuth, III & Natasha M. Johnson & Hugh G. M. Hill, 2014. "CO Self-Shielding as a Mechanism to Make 16 O-Enriched Solids in the Solar Nebula," Challenges, MDPI, vol. 5(1), pages 1-7, May.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:415:y:2002:i:6874:d:10.1038_415860b. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.nature.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.