{"id":503770,"date":"2022-10-26T02:00:02","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T23:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/tree-rings-offer-insight-into-devastating-radiation-storms\/"},"modified":"2022-10-26T02:00:02","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T23:00:02","slug":"tree-rings-offer-insight-into-devastating-radiation-storms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/tree-rings-offer-insight-into-devastating-radiation-storms\/","title":{"rendered":"#Tree rings offer insight into devastating radiation storms"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3e55ac66689\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3e55ac66689\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/tree-rings-offer-insight-into-devastating-radiation-storms\/#%E2%80%9CTree_rings_offer_insight_into_devastating_radiation_storms%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Tree rings offer insight into devastating radiation storms&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CTree_rings_offer_insight_into_devastating_radiation_storms%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Tree rings offer insight into devastating radiation storms&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-gallery lightGallery\">\n<div data-thumb=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/tmb\/2022\/tree-rings-offer-insig.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/scx2.b-cdn.net\/gfx\/news\/hires\/2022\/tree-rings-offer-insig.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"A composite image showing a tree ring and flames - UQ researchers used tree ring data to model the global carbon cycle to challenge the common theory about Miyake Events. Credit: The University of Queensland\">\n<figure class=\"article-img\">\n            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/800a\/2022\/tree-rings-offer-insig.jpg\" alt=\"Tree rings offer insight into devastating radiation storms\" title=\"A composite image showing a tree ring and flames - UQ researchers used tree ring data to model the global carbon cycle to challenge the common theory about Miyake Events. Credit: The University of Queensland\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\"\/><figcaption class=\"text-darken text-low-up text-truncate-js text-truncate mt-3\">\n                A composite image showing a tree ring and flames &#8211; UQ researchers used tree ring data to model the global carbon cycle to challenge the common theory about Miyake Events. Credit: The University of Queensland<br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>A University of Queensland study has shed new light on a mysterious, unpredictable and potentially devastating kind of astrophysical event.<\/p>\n<section class=\"article-banner first-banner ads-336x280\">\n         <!-- \/4988204\/Phys_Story_InText_Box --><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p>A team led by Dr. Benjamin Pope from UQ&#8217;s School of Mathematics and Physics <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>lied cutting edge statistics to data from millennia-old trees, to find out more about radiation &#8220;storms.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These huge bursts of cosmic radiation, known as Miyake Events, have occurred approximately once every thousand years, but what causes them is unclear,&#8221; Dr. Pope said.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The leading theory is that they are huge solar flares. We need to know more, because if one of these happened today, it would destroy <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technology<\/a> including satellites, internet cables, long-distance power lines and transformers. The effect on global infrastructure would be unimaginable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Enter the humble tree ring.<\/p>\n<p>First author Qingyuan Zhang, a UQ undergraduate math student, developed software to analyze every available piece of data on tree rings.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Because you can count a tree&#8217;s rings to identify its age, you can also observe historical cosmic events going back thousands of years,&#8221; Mr. Zhang said. &#8220;When radiation strikes the atmosphere, it produces radioactive carbon-14, which filters through the air, oceans, plants, and animals, and produces an annual record of radiation in tree rings. We modeled the global carbon cycle to reconstruct the process over a 10,000-year period, to gain insight into the scale and nature of the Miyake Events.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The common theory until now has been that Miyake Events are giant solar flares.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But our results challenge this,&#8221; Mr. Zhang said. &#8220;We&#8217;ve shown they&#8217;re not correlated with sunspot activity, and some actually last one or two years. Rather than a single instantaneous explosion or flare, what we may be looking at is a kind of astrophysical &#8216;storm&#8217; or outburst.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Pope said the fact scientists don&#8217;t know exactly what Miyake Events are, or how to predict their occurrence, is very disturbing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Based on available data, there&#8217;s roughly a one percent chance of seeing another one within the next decade. But we don&#8217;t know how to predict it or what harms it may cause. These odds are quite alarming, and lay the foundation for further research,&#8221; he concluded.<\/p>\n<p>The research is published in <i>Proceedings of the Royal Society A<\/i>, and was completed with help from undergraduate math and physics students Utkarsh Sharma and Jordan Dennis.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<div class=\"article-main__explore my-4 d-print-none\">\n<p>                                            Analysis of tree rings reveals highly abnormal solar activity in the mid-holocene\n                                        <\/p><\/div>\n<hr class=\"mb-4\"\/>\n<div class=\"article-main__more p-4\">\n                                                                                                <strong>More information:<\/strong><br \/>\n                                                Modelling Cosmic Radiation Events in the Tree-ring Radiocarbon Record, <i>Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical and Physical <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Science<\/a>s<\/i> (2022).  <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-doi=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1098\/rspa.2022.0497\">DOI: 10.1098\/rspa.2022.0497<\/a>. <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/royalsocietypublishing.org\/doi\/10.1098\/rspa.2022.0497\">royalsocietypublishing.org\/doi \u2026 .1098\/rspa.2022.0497<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"d-inline-block text-medium my-4\">\n                                                Provided by<br \/>\n                                                                                                    University of Queensland<br \/>\n                                                                                                        <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"icon_open\" href=\"http:\/\/www.uq.edu.au\/\"><br \/>\n                                                        <svg>\n                                                            <use href=\"https:\/\/phys.b-cdn.net\/tmpl\/v6\/img\/svg\/sprite.svg#icon_open\" x=\"0\" y=\"0\"\/>\n                                                        <\/svg><br \/>\n                                                    <\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>                                        <!-- print only --><\/p>\n<div class=\"d-none d-print-block\">\n<p>                                                 <strong>Citation<\/strong>:<br \/>\n                                                 Tree rings offer insight into devastating radiation storms (2022, October 25)<br \/>\n                                                 retrieved 25 October 2022<br \/>\n                                                 from https:\/\/phys.org\/<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a>\/2022-10-tree-insight-devastating-storms.html<\/p>\n<p>                                            This document is subject to copyright. 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