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We investigate how cosmic rays (CRs) affect thermal and hydrostatic stability of circumgalactic (CGM) gas, in simulations with both CR streaming and diffusion. Local thermal instability can be suppressed by CR-driven entropy mode…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-25 Tsun Hin Navin Tsung , S. Peng Oh , Chad Bustard

A nonlinear time dependent fluid simulation model is developed that describes the evolution of magnetohydrodynamic waves in the presence of collisional and charge exchange interactions of a partially ionized plasma. The partially ionized…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Dastgeer Shaikh , G. P. Zank

We perform kinetic simulations of diffusive shock acceleration (DSA) in Type Ia supernova remnants (SNRs) expanding into a uniform interstellar medium (ISM). Bohm-like diffusion assumed, and simple models for Alfvenic drift and dissipation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-18 Hyesung Kang

Turbulence in space plasmas usually exhibits two regimes separated by a spectral break that divides the so called inertial and kinetic ranges. Large scale magnetic fluctuations are dominated by non-linear MHD wave-wave interactions…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-03-22 Pablo S. Moya , Roberto E. Navarro

A collisionless shock wave is treated as a streaming plasma instability in the interstellar medium (ISM). We assume that in a steady state, this instability propagates through the ISM as a self-driven plasma instability, whereby the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-30 Vladimir Zekovic , Bojan Arbutina

(Shortened) Thermal instability of partially ionized plasma is investigated by linear perturbation analysis. According to the previous studies under the one fluid approach, the thermal instability is suppressed due to the magnetic pressure.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Tsubasa Fukue , Hideyuki Kamaya

Using hybrid simulations (kinetic ions--fluid electrons), we test the linear theory predictions of the cosmic ray (CR) streaming instability. We consider two types of CR distribution functions: a "hot" distribution where CRs are represented…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-16 Colby Haggerty , Damiano Caprioli , Ellen Zweibel

Compressible disturbances propagate in a plasma in the form of magnetoacoustic waves driven by both gas pressure and magnetic forces. In partially ionized plasmas the dynamics of ionized and neutral species are coupled due to ion-neutral…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Roberto Soler , Marc Carbonell , Jose Luis Ballester

We used unprecedentedly large 2D and 3D hybrid (kinetic ions - fluid electrons) simulations of non-relativistic collisionless strong shocks in order to investigate the effects of self-consistently accelerated ions on the overall shock…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 D. Caprioli , A. Spitkovsky

Cosmic rays (CRs) have critical impacts in the multiphase interstellar medium (ISM), driving dynamical motions in low-density plasma and modifying the ionization state, temperature, and chemical composition of higher-density atomic and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-23 Christopher J. Bambic , Xue-Ning Bai , Eve C. Ostriker

Galactic cosmic rays are believed to be accelerated at supernova remnants. However, whether supernova remnants can be Pevatrons is still very unclear. In this work we argue that PeV cosmic rays can be accelerated during the early phase of a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-24 Tsuyoshi Inoue , Alexandre Marcowith , Gwenael Giacinti , Allard Jan van Marle , Shogo Nishino

A theory of cosmic-ray transport in multi-phase diffusive media is developed, with the specific application to cases in which the cosmic-ray diffusion coefficient has large spatial fluctuations that may be inherently multi-scale. We…

Context. Supernova remnants (SNR) are one of the main sources of galactic cosmic rays acceleration. This acceleration, believed to happen at the blast wave front, leads to an energy loss at the shock front. This results in the apparent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-26 Gabriel Rigon , Tsuyoshi Inoue

The analytical theory of diffusive cosmic ray acceleration at parallel stationary shock waves with magnetostatic turbulence is generalized to arbitrary shock speeds $V_s=\beta_1c$, including in particular relativistic speeds. This is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-19 Reinhard Schlickeiser

The supernova paradigm for the origin of galactic cosmic rays has been deeply affected by the development of the non-linear theory of particle acceleration at shock waves. Here we discuss the implications of applying such theory to the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-13 D. Caprioli , E. Amato , P. Blasi

Irregular galaxies are usually smaller and less massive than their spiral, S0, and elliptical counterparts. Radio observations indicate that a magnetic field is present in irregular galaxies whose value is similar to that in spiral…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-11-20 H. Siejkowski , M. Soida , K. Otmianowska-Mazur , M. Hanasz , D. J. Bomans

Core collapse supernovae (CCSNe) produce fast shocks which pervade the dense circum-stellar medium (CSM) of the stellar progenitor. Cosmic rays (CRs) if accelerated at these shocks can induce the growth of electromagnetic fluctuations in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-18 Alexandre Marcowith , Vikram Dwarkadas , Matthieu Renaud , Vincent Tatischeff , Gwenael Giacinti

While cosmic rays $(E\gtrsim 1\,\mathrm{GeV})$ are well coupled to a galaxy's interstellar medium (ISM) at scales of $L>100\,\mathrm{pc}$, adjusting stratification and driving outflows, their impact on small scales is less clear. Based on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-03 Roark Habegger , Ka Wai Ho , Ka Ho Yuen , Ellen G. Zweibel

We investigate numerically the contribution to the cosmic gamma-ray background from cosmic-rays ions and electrons accelerated at intergalactic shocks associated with cosmological structure formation. We show that the kinetic energy of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Francesco Miniati

Possible formulations of the problem of cosmic rays acceleration in the interstellar galactic medium are considered with the use of fractional differential equations. The applied technique has been physically justified. A Fermi result has…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-05-19 V. V. Uchaikin