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We show that the Bell instability, which is widely considered potentially important for cosmic-ray acceleration, is the low-frequency limit of a gyroresonant interaction between the protons of the interstellar medium and shear-Alfv\'en…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-03-13 Martin S. Weidl , Dan Winske , Christoph Niemann

We show here that a purely kinetic approach to the excitation of waves by cosmic rays in the vicinity of a shock front leads to predict the appearance of a non-alfvenic fastly growing mode which is the same that was found by Bell (2004) by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-06-13 Pasquale Blasi , Elena Amato

Using fully-kinetic plasma simulations, we study the non-resonant (Bell) streaming instability driven by energetic leptons. We identify the necessary conditions to drive it and the differences from the standard proton-driven case in both…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-26 Siddhartha Gupta , Damiano Caprioli , Colby Haggerty

We study the streaming instability of GeV$-100~$GeV cosmic rays (CRs) and its damping in the turbulent interstellar medium (ISM). We find that the damping of streaming instability is dominated by ion-neutral collisional damping in weakly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-14 Siyao Xu , Alex Lazarian

The nonresonant streaming instability (Bell instability) plays a pivotal role in the acceleration and confinement of cosmic rays (CRs); yet, the exact mechanism responsible for its saturation and the magnitude of the final amplified…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-09 Georgios Zacharegkas , Damiano Caprioli , Colby Haggerty , Siddhartha Gupta , Benedikt Schroer

We investigate the streaming and thermal instabilities of the electron-ion plasma with homogeneous cold cosmic rays drifting perpendicular to the background magnetic field in the multi-fluid approach. One-dimensional perturbations along the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-03-27 Anatoly K. Nekrasov , Mohsen Shadmehri

Cosmic ray (CR)-driven instabilities play a decisive role during particle acceleration at shocks and CR propagation in galaxies and galaxy clusters. These instabilities amplify magnetic fields and modulate CR transport so that the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-03 Mohamad Shalaby , Timon Thomas , Christoph Pfrommer

Cosmic rays (CRs) streaming in weakly magnetized plasmas can drive large-amplitude magnetic fluctuations via nonresonant streaming instability (NRSI), or Bell instability. Using one-dimensional kinetic simulations, we investigate how…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-27 Saikat Das , Siddhartha Gupta , Prateek Sharma

Recently, Bell has reanalysed the problem of wave excitation by cosmic rays propagating in the pre-cursor region of a supernova remnant shock front. He pointed out a strong, non-resonant, current-driven instability that had been overlooked…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 B. Reville , J. G. Kirk , P. Duffy

We show that a purely kinetic approach to the excitation of waves by cosmic rays in the vicinity of a shock front leads to predict the appearance of a non-alfv\'enic fastly growing mode which has the same dispersion relation as that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Elena Amato , Pasquale Blasi

Cosmic-ray streaming instabilities at supernova shocks are discussed in the quasilinear diffusion formalism which takes into account the feedback effect of wave growth on the cosmic ray streaming motion. In particular, the nonresonant…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 Qinghuan Luo , Don Melrose

A strong super-Alfv\'{e}nic drift of energetic particles (or cosmic rays, CRs) in a magnetized plasma can amplify the magnetic field significantly through non-resonant streaming instability (NRSI). While the traditional analysis is done for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-05 Siddhartha Gupta , Damiano Caprioli , Colby C. Haggerty

We explore streaming instabilities of the electron-ion plasma with relativistic and ultra-relativistic cosmic rays in the background magnetic field in the multi-fluid approach. Cosmic rays can be both electrons and ions. The drift speed of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 A. K. Nekrasov

Cosmic-ray acceleration at non-relativistic shocks relies on scattering by turbulence that the cosmic rays drive upstream of the shock. We explore the rate of energy transfer from cosmic rays to non-resonant Bell modes and the spectral…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-17 Martin Pohl

We investigate the diffusive shock acceleration in the presence of the non-resonant streaming instability introduced by Bell (2004). The numerical MHD simulations of the magnetic field amplification combined with the analytical treatment of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 V. N. Zirakashvili , V. S. Ptuskin

In supernova remnants, the nonlinear amplification of magnetic fields upstream of collisionless shocks is essential for the acceleration of cosmic rays to the energy of the "knee" at 10^{15.5}eV. A nonresonant instability driven by the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Yutaka Ohira , Brian Reville , John G. Kirk , Fumio Takahara

Recent advances in understanding of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence call for revisions in the picture of cosmic ray transport. In this paper we use recently obtained scaling laws for MHD modes to obtain the scattering frequency for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Huirong Yan , A. Lazarian

The instability of current-driven ion-acoustic waves in the collisionless magnetic-field-free space plasma is investigated by using a nonextensive approach. The ions and the electrons are thought of in the power-law distributions that can…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-08-10 Zhipeng Liu , Liyan Liu , Jiulin Du

Recent advances in understanding of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence call for revisions in the picture of cosmic ray transport. In this paper we use recently obtained scaling laws for MHD modes to obtain the scattering frequency for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Huirong Yan , A. Lazarian

Cosmic ray (CR) currents through magnetised plasma drive strong instabilities producing amplification of the magnetic field. This amplification helps explain the CR energy spectrum as well as observations of supernova remnants and radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-31 James H. Matthews , Anthony R. Bell , Katherine M. Blundell , Anabella T. Araudo