Brian D. Fields

TL;DR: In this article, the influence of nuclear physics variations on spallation effects on the abundance of the r-process nucleosynthesis sites in the ISM has been investigated and it was shown that spallations reactions may shift the abundance patterns towards solar data, particularly around the low-mass edges of the R-process peaks where neighboring nuclei have very different abundances.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated whether nitrate rainout resulting from the atmospheric ionization of enhanced cosmic ray flux could have, through its fertilizer effect, initiated carbon dioxide drawdown and induce the climate change that led to the Pleistocene glaciations.

TL;DR: In this article, the first population of stars and the processes involved in the formation of galaxies and clusters of galaxies are reconstructed. And the X-ray spectroscopy of diffuse matter has the unique capability of simultaneously probing all the elements (C through Fe), in all their ionization stages and all binding states (atomic, molecular, and solid), and thus provides a model independent survey of the metals.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show how to test the compatibility of all these assumptions, by making use of the local (solar neighborhood) star formation record encoded in the present-day stellar mass function.

TL;DR: Prodanovic et al. as mentioned in this paper proposed a model independent, statistical Bayesian method to determine in a model-independent manner the undepleted ISM D abundance, indicating a small deuterium astration factor contrary to the demands of many GCE models.