En attendant la traduction à venir voilà l'information à sa source : Gamma Ray bursts (GRBs), short and intense bursts of γ-rays, are the brightest explosions known. The copious flux of γ-ray photons with energies above 100 keV from a galactic GRB could destroy the ozone layer making them potentially damaging to life on Earth ... Given the recent significant progress in quantifying the main ingredients that determine whether GRBs have any effect on Earth: their rate, luminosity function and dependence on metallicity it is therefore timely to reasses this issue... To estimate the effect of a GRB on life on Earth we need to know what the dangerous radiation doses are. Ruderman [ 1 ], who considered at the time the effect of a nearby Supernovae on Earth, realized that the most damaging effect would be the depletion of the Earth protective Ozone layer for a period of months. This would happen via formation of stratospheric nitric oxide that destroys the Ozone. The O...
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