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A Possible Role for Stochastic Astrophysical Ionizing Radiation Events in the Systematic Disparity between Molecular and Fossil Dates

scientific article published on 27 December 2016

A ubiquitous ∼62-Myr periodic fluctuation superimposed on general trends in fossil biodiversity. I. Documentation

An ∼60-Million-Year Periodicity Is Common to Marine 87Sr/86Sr, Fossil Biodiversity, and Large-Scale Sedimentation: What Does the Periodicity Reflect?

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Astrophysical ionizing radiation and Earth: a brief review and census of intermittent intense sources.

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Atmospheric consequences of cosmic ray variability in the extragalactic shock model: 2. Revised ionization levels and their consequences

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Atmospheric consequences of cosmic-ray variability in the extragalactic shock model

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Atmospheric ionization by high‐fluence, hard‐spectrum solar proton events and their probable appearance in the ice core archive

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Causes of an ad 774-775 14C increase

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Climatic and biogeochemical effects of a galactic gamma ray burst

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Cometary airbursts and atmospheric chemistry: Tunguska and a candidate Younger Dryas event

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Comment on “Direct evidence of ancient shock metamorphism at the site of the 1908 Tunguska event” by Vannucchi et al. (Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 409 (2015) 168–174)

Considering the case for biodiversity cycles: re-examining the evidence for periodicity in the fossil record

scientific article (publication date: 22 August 2007)

Cosmic rays and terrestrial life: A brief review

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Cosmogenic nuclide enhancement via deposition from long-period comets as a test of the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis

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Decaying neutrinos in galaxy clusters

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Eccentricity Evolution in Simulated Galaxy Clusters

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Extraordinary Biomass-Burning Episode and Impact Winter Triggered by the Younger Dryas Cosmic Impact ∼12,800 Years Ago. 1. Ice Cores and Glaciers

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Extraordinary Biomass-Burning Episode and Impact Winter Triggered by the Younger Dryas Cosmic Impact ∼12,800 Years Ago. 2. Lake, Marine, and Terrestrial Sediments

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Extraordinary Biomass-Burning Episode and Impact Winter Triggered by the Younger Dryas Cosmic Impact ∼12,800 Years Ago: A Reply

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Formation of large-scale structure from cosmic-string loops and cold dark matter

scientific article published in Nature

From Cosmic Explosions to Terrestrial Fires?

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From Cosmic Explosions to Terrestrial Fires? A Reply

scientific article published in July 2020

Gamma-ray bursts: not so much deadlier than we thought

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Gamma‐Ray Bursts and the Earth: Exploration of Atmospheric, Biological, Climatic, and Biogeochemical Effects

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Generation of large-scale cosmological structures by gravitational clustering

scientific article published in Nature

Higher order moments of the matter distribution in scale-free cosmological simulations with large dynamic range

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Hypothesis: Muon Radiation Dose and Marine Megafaunal Extinction at the End-Pliocene Supernova

scientific article published on 27 November 2018

Late Ordovician geographic patterns of extinction compared with simulations of astrophysical ionizing radiation damage

Long-term cycles in the history of life: periodic biodiversity in the paleobiology database

scientific article (publication date: 2008)

Lookup tables to compute high energy cosmic ray induced atmospheric ionization and changes in atmospheric chemistry

Nemesis reconsidered

Session 21. The Habitable Galaxy: Variation in Space and Time

Stellar astrophysics: Supernovae in the neighbourhood

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Superluminous supernovae: no threat from eta Carinae

scientific article published in February 2008

Supernova triggers for end-Devonian extinctions

scientific article published on 18 August 2020

Terrestrial Consequences of Spectral and Temporal Variability in Ionizing Photon Events

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Terrestrial effects of moderately nearby supernovae

scientific article published on 15 January 2018

Terrestrial effects of possible astrophysical sources of an AD 774-775 increase in14C production

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Testing the link between terrestrial climate change and Galactic Spiral Arm transit

scientific article (publication date: 20 October 2009)

The area of isodensity contours in cosmological models and galaxy surveys

The topology of large-scale structure. III - Analysis of observations

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Three-dimensional simulation of large-scale structure in the Universe

scientific article published in Nature