11–16 Dec 2022
Australia/Adelaide timezone
Co-locating with the 7th International Workshop of Specialty Optical Fibres and Their Applications (WSOF), the Australian and New Zealand Conference on Optics and Photonics (ANZCOP), and the Conference on Optoelectronlc and Microelectronic Materials and Devices (COMMAD)

Modelling Cosmic Radiation Events in the Tree-ring Radiocarbon Record

16 Dec 2022, 10:15
15m
Room R2 (Adelaide Convention Centre)

Room R2

Adelaide Convention Centre

Talk (preferred) AIP: Solar Terrestrial and Space Physics AIP: Solar Terrestrial and Space Physics

Speaker

Benjamin Pope (University of Queensland)

Description

Tree ring radiocarbon reveals 'Miyake events': rare bursts of cosmic radiation, larger than the greatest solar flares. Using our new open source Bayesian carbon cycle code, we reanalyse all published data, rejecting false positive events and challenging previous models.

Author

Benjamin Pope (University of Queensland)

Co-authors

Mr Jordan Dennis (University of Queensland) Dr Margot Kuitems (University of Groningen) Prof. Mathew Owens (University of Reading) Mike Dee (University of Groningen) Mr Qingyuan Zhang (University of Queensland) Prof. Ulf Büntgen (University of Cambridge) Mr Utkarsh Sharma (University of Queensland)

Presentation materials