If the variation in 10Be/9Be ratios of CAIs reflects those episodic accretion events, 10Be/9Be ratios of CH–CB CAIs observed in this study would give important constraints on the evolution of the solar protoplanetary disk. Astronomical observations suggest that FUori-type outbursts are confined to the first few hundreds of thousands of years, which correspond to the class I stage of the protoplanetary disk evolution (e.g., Schulz 2012). We propose that the high and variable 10Be/9Be ratios recorded in CH–CB CAIs reflect episodic cosmic-ray fluxes caused by FUori-type outbursts. On the other hand, relatively low and less variable 10Be/9Be ratios recorded in CV CAIs may reflect less intensive episodic accretion events, possibly the EXori-type outbursts, which are confined to the evolutional stage of a few million years after the formation of the protoplanetary disk (=class II). Note that CH–CB CAIs studied here show no (or very low) signs of 26Al-derived 26Mg excesses, while most CV CAIs show clear evidence for the past presence of 26Al. If 26Al was introduced into the solar system at the earliest stage of the disk evolution (e.g., Sahijpal & Goswami 1998), differences in Be–B and Al–Mg systematics between CH–CB and CV CAIs imply that the injection of 26Al have occurred between the evolutionary stages class I and class II of the solar protoplanetary disk. This scenario is in agreement with arguments by other authors that the 26Al-free CAIs formed prior to injection and homogenization of 26Al in the early solar system (Sahijpal & Goswami 1998; Sahijpal et al. 2000; Krot et al. 2008a see more discussion in Krot et al. 2012a). Importantly, as mentioned in the introduction, CH–CB chondrites may have accreted a significant amount of outer solar system materials (Murty et al. 2007; Ivanova et al. 2008; Briani et al. 2009; Bonal et al. 2010; Olsen et al. 2016; Van Kooten et al. 2016), suggesting that CH–CB chondrites formed at outer parts of the solar protoplanetary disk relative to CV chondrites. In this case, our new Be–B and Al–Mg data set implies that the earliest formed CAIs tend to be transported into the outer part of the solar protoplanetary disk, where the parent bodies of CH–CB chondrites likely accreted. Yang & Ciesla (2012) modeled the evolution of the protoplanetary disk and material transport in the protoplanetary disk. Interestingly, Yang & Ciesla (2012) showed that outward radial transport in class I would have been greater than that of later stages of YSO evolution, suggesting that the earliest formed CAIs could be preserved in primitive bodies that accreted in the outer part of the disk. This model is consistent with our interpretation for the Be–B and Al–Mg systematics on CH–CB CAIs. It should be noted, however, that it is possible that 26Al were heterogeneously distributed in the CAI-forming regions at the earliest stage of the solar system evolution (e.g., Krot et al. 2008a; Holst et al. 2013; Park et al. 2017 and reference therein). Because no Pb–Pb ages of CH–CB CAIs are available at present, we cannot discard that possibility. Very recently, Kööp et al. (2018) found helium and neon excesses in the 26Al-free hibonite-rich CAIs, which can be attributed to in situ irradiation by energetic particles. Because 26Al-rich CAIs in CV chondrites lack comparable noble gas irradiation records (Vogel et al. 2004), Kööp et al. (2018) concluded that 26Al-free hibonite-rich CAIs experienced intense energetic particle irradiation at the earliest stage of solar protoplanetary disk evolution. This conclusion seems to be consistent with our above scenario for 26Al-free CH–CB CAIs. Note, however, that 10Be/9Be ratios of 26Al-free hibonite-rich CAIs in CM chondrites tend to be in the range of those for 26Al-rich CV CAIs (Liu et al. 2009, 2010), which is inconsistent with the above scenario. Therefore, the relationship between 10Be and 26Al in the early solar system would be more complicated than we thought.
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